The Developmental Language Programme. Results from a Five Year Study

Cooper, Jean; Moodley, Molly; Reynell, Joan

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“…The importance of screening for language delay lies in the rationale that early identification and intervention may improve the outcome (Cooper, Moodley & Reynell, 1979). Many preschool children with milder language delay improve with age (Herbert & Wedell, 1970).…”

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Language screening in preschool Chinese children

Wong

Lee

Lieh‐Mak

et al. 1992

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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SThe incidence of language delay in Chinese preschool children was studied by a stratified proportional sampling of all 3 year olds in Hong Kong. The Developmental Language Screening Scale (DLSS) devised for use with Cantonese speaking children was used to identify children with language delay. Of 855 children sampled in the stage I screening procedure, 4%, 2.8% and 3.3% were identified as having delay in verbal comprehension, expression or both respectively. The stage II clinical diagnostic study included a randomly selected group of children screened in stage I with or without any associated behavioural problem. Among these, 3.4% were identified as having a language delay using the Reynell Language Developmental Scale (RDLS) with a criterion of language age of less than or equal to two-thirds of the chronological age; 3% had specific language delay using the criteria of language age less than or equal to two-thirds the chronological age and developmental age more than or equal to two-thirds the chronological age. More boys were found to have language delay, although this was not statistically significant. La frkquence du retard d a m l'acquisition du langage chez les enfants chinois d'iige prkscolaire a ktk ktudite au moyen d'kchantillonnages proportionnels stratifiks au sein de la l'ensemble de la population des enfants de3 ans de Hong-Kong. L'on a utilist 1'Echelle de Dkpistage pour le Dkveloppement du Langage (Developmental Language Screening Scale, O M DLSS), dkja m b e au point pour les enfants de langue cantonaise, pour identifier ceux souffrant de retard linguistique. Parmi les 885 enfants prklevts par kchantillonnage pour le premier stade du processus de dkpistage, il s'est rkvklt que les pourcentages de retards en ce qui concernait la comprthension verbale, l'expression verbale, O M une combinaison de ces deux facteurs, ttaient, respectivement, de 4%, 2.8% et 3.3%. Le deuxieme stade de l'ktude diagnostique clinique concernait un groupe d'enfants stlectionnks au hasard parmi ceux qui avaient dkja ktk examinks au premier stade, et dont certains prksentaient en plus des probkmes de comportement alors que d'autres n'en avaient pas. Dans le nombre il s'est trouve que 3.4% souffraient de retards du langage d'apr2s l'Echelle de Reynell (Reynell Language Development Scale, O M R D LS) avec un crit2re d'iige linguistique infkrieur O M kgal aux 213 de I'iige chronologique, et que 3% souffraient de retard sptcifique du langage en utilisant un iige linguistique de 213 de l'iige chronologique et un iige de dtveloppement suptrieur OM kgal aux 213 de l'ii e chronologique. Davantage de garcons que de filles souffaient de retards du langage, mais la Jffkrence n'e'tait pas statistiquement significative. 248 WONG, LEUNG, LUK, LEE, LIEH-MAK, YEUNG AND YIU Die Pravalenz der Sprachentwicklungsstorung bei chinesischen Vorschulkindern wurde an Hand von einer schichtenformigen, proportionierten Stichprobe von allen dreijahrigen Kindern in Hong Kong studiert. Urn die Kinder rnit einer Sprachentwicklungsstorung zu identi...

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Language screening in preschool Chinese children

Wong

Lee

Lieh‐Mak

et al. 1992

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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“…Parental involvement in therapy has long been recognized as an important means of enhancing a child's development, providing support and assistance to families, and maximizing therapeutic benefits, but as yet there is insufficient research to evaluate this involvement (Cooper et al . , Kaiser and Roberts , Watts Pappas et al . ).…”

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“…Interestingly, only 4% of parents reported that they would prefer parent training or an HP to individual therapy. Parental involvement in therapy has long been recognized as an important means of enhancing a child's development, providing support and assistance to families, and maximizing therapeutic benefits, but as yet there is insufficient research to evaluate this involvement (Cooper et al 1979, Watts Pappas et al 2008. Together these findings suggest that workplace factors such as staffing, funding models and the prior clinical experience of SLTs may be influencing service delivery decision-making rather than client preference or external evidence.…”

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Parent-implemented home therapy programmes for speech and language: a systematic review

Tosh

Arnott

Scarinci

2016

International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders

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“…Whilst a relatively large number of therapy studies have focused on comparing techniques such as modelling (Leonard 1975, Courtright and Courtright 1976, Ellis Weismer and Murray-Branch 1989, imitation (Connell 1987, Ezell and Goldstein 1989, Connell and Stone 1992 and conversational/sentence recasting (Camarata et al 1994, Nelson et al 1996, Fey et al 1997, Saxton 2005, fewer studies have investigated the effectiveness of different models of therapy provision. Early studies carried out by Cooper et al (1979) investigated the effectiveness of a therapy programme which parents/carers carried out at home, comparing gains in language scores with those of a group for whom the programme was delivered directly by a SLT in a language group. They demonstrated that the home-based intervention delivered by the parents was more effective.…”

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Evaluation of speech and language therapy interventions for pre‐school children with specific language impairment: a comparison of outcomes following specialist intensive, nursery‐based and no intervention

Gallagher¹,

Chiat

2009

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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Background: Clinical services in the UK are increasingly delivering ‘consultative’ methods of intervention rather than ‘direct’ intensive input for children with receptive and expressive language difficulties, yet there has been little systematic evaluation of these different intervention models. Aims: To investigate the effectiveness of different models of therapy provision for children with specific language impairment between the ages of 4;00 and 4;06 years. Methods & Procedures: Twenty‐four children were selected from a specialist waiting list in the London Borough of Lambeth. They were assessed on a range of verbal and non‐verbal skills, and randomly assigned to three different intervention groups. Group 1 received direct intensive speech and language therapy weekly over an 8‐month period at a child development centre; Group 2 received a nursery‐based model of intervention; and Group 3 received review sessions at their local clinic. Outcome & Results: Statistical analysis before the intervention phase revealed no significant differences in scores between the three groups on a range of clinical and parental measures of language, non‐verbal skills, play and behaviour. At the end of the intervention period the Intensive group showed significantly greater improvement than the No Intervention group on all clinical and parental measures, and significantly greater improvement than the Nursery‐based group on all clinical and parental measures except for expressive grammar. Conclusions & Implications: The results of this small‐scale study demonstrate that intensive direct speech and language therapy delivered by speech and language therapists was a more effective model of intervention for this clinical group with severe speech and language impairment.

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The Developmental Language Programme. Results from a Five Year Study

Cited by 31 publications

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Language screening in preschool Chinese children

Language screening in preschool Chinese children

Parent-implemented home therapy programmes for speech and language: a systematic review

Evaluation of speech and language therapy interventions for pre‐school children with specific language impairment: a comparison of outcomes following specialist intensive, nursery‐based and no intervention

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