The New Reynell Developmental Language Scales: Descriptive account and illustrative case study

Letts, Carolyn; Edwards, Susan; Schaefer, Blanca; Sinka, Indra

doi:10.1177/0265659013492784

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“…Unknown ratings of evidence were applied to both the internal consistency of the NRSLD (Letts et al 2014) and inter-rater reliability assessments of the BSID-III (Moore et al 2012). Whilst both results met Terwee criteria, the methodological quality of the studies were poor rendering the findings inconclusive.…”

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Psychometric Properties of Child (0–5 Years) Outcome Measures as used in Randomized Controlled Trials of Parent Programs: A Systematic Review

Gridley

Blower

Dunn

et al. 2019

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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This systematic review is one of the three which sought to identify measures commonly implemented in parenting program research, and to assess the level of psychometric evidence available for their use with this age group. This review focuses specifically on measures of child social–emotional and behavioral outcomes. Two separate searches of the same databases were conducted; firstly to identify eligible instruments, and secondly to identify studies reporting on the psychometric properties of the identified measures. Five commercial platforms hosting 19 electronic databases were searched from their inception to conducted search dates. Twenty-four measures were identified from Search 1: a systematic search of randomized controlled trial evaluations of parenting programs. For Search 2, inclusion/exclusion criteria were applied to 21,329 articles that described the development and/or validation of the 24 measures identified in Search 1. Thirty articles met the inclusion criteria. resulting in 11 parent report questionnaires and three developmental assessment measures for review. Data were extracted and synthesized to describe the methodological quality of each article using the COSMIN checklist alongside the overall quality rating of the psychometric property reported for each measure. Measure reliability was categorized into four domains (internal consistency, test–re-test, inter-rater, and intra-rater). Measure validity was categorized into four domains (content, structural, convergent/divergent, and discriminant). Results indicated that supporting evidence for included measures is weak. Further work is required to improve the evidence base for those measures designed to assess children’s social–emotional and behavioral development in this age group. PROSPERO Registration number: CRD42016039600. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s10567-019-00277-1) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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Psychometric Properties of Child (0–5 Years) Outcome Measures as used in Randomized Controlled Trials of Parent Programs: A Systematic Review

Gridley

Blower

Dunn

et al. 2019

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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“…The Leiter-R is an objective nonverbal test of cognitive abilities that has been used for testing children with autism (Grondhuis & Mulick, 2013; Shah & Holmes, 1985; Tsatsanis et al, 2003). The Reynell Developmental Language Scales is another objective test designed to evaluate both expressive and receptive language in young children, including those with autism (Kaale, Fagerland, Martinsen, & Smith, 2014; Kjellmer et al, 2012; Reynell & Gruber, 1990). This test has revealed language comprehension delays, along with a high level of variability in the development of language comprehension in children with autism (Kjellmer et al, 2012; Reynell & Gruber, 1990).…”

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“…The Reynell Developmental Language Scales is another objective test designed to evaluate both expressive and receptive language in young children, including those with autism (Kaale, Fagerland, Martinsen, & Smith, 2014; Kjellmer et al, 2012; Reynell & Gruber, 1990). This test has revealed language comprehension delays, along with a high level of variability in the development of language comprehension in children with autism (Kjellmer et al, 2012; Reynell & Gruber, 1990). The Reynell test sessions were video recorded and we subsequently scored the performance of the children using both the testing session and the digitized files.…”

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Environmental enrichment as a therapy for autism: A clinical trial replication and extension.

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Donnelly

Steinberg-Epstein

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Behavioral Neuroscience

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Based on work done in animal models showing that autism-like symptoms are ameliorated following exposure to an enriched sensorimotor environment, we attempted to develop a comparable therapy for children with autism. In an initial randomized controlled trial, children with autism who received sensorimotor enrichment at home for six months had significant improvements in both their cognitive ability and the severity of their autism symptoms (Woo & Leon, 2013). We now report the outcomes of a similar randomized controlled trial in which children with autism, aged 3-6 years old, were randomly assigned to groups that received either daily sensorimotor enrichment, administered by their parents, along with standard care, or they received standard care alone. After six months, enriched children showed statistically significant gains in their IQ scores, a decline in their atypical sensory responses, and an improvement in their receptive language performance, compared to controls. Furthermore, after six months of enrichment therapy, 21% of the children who initially had been given an autism classification, using the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, improved to the point that, although they remained on the autism spectrum, they no longer met the criteria for classic autism. None of the standard care controls reached an equivalent level of improvement. Finally, the outcome measures for children who received only a subset of sensory stimuli were similar to those receiving the full complement of enrichment exercises. Sensorimotor enrichment therapy therefore appears to be a cost-effective means of treating a range of symptoms for children with autism.

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“…Only three published articles by authors of assessments were identified. One of these contained information on the development, standardization and psychometric properties of the NRDLS (Letts et al, 2014 ). This study was not included in this review as it was published after the assessment manual and contained no new information.…”

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Psychometric Properties of Language Assessments for Children Aged 4–12 Years: A Systematic Review

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Introduction: Standardized assessments are widely used by speech pathologists in clinical and research settings to evaluate the language abilities of school-aged children and inform decisions about diagnosis, eligibility for services and intervention. Given the significance of these decisions, it is important that assessments have sound psychometric properties.Objective: The aim of this systematic review was to examine the psychometric quality of currently available comprehensive language assessments for school-aged children and identify assessments with the best evidence for use.Methods: Using the PRISMA framework as a guideline, a search of five databases and a review of websites and textbooks was undertaken to identify language assessments and published material on the reliability and validity of these assessments. The methodological quality of selected studies was evaluated using the COSMIN taxonomy and checklist.Results: Fifteen assessments were evaluated. For most assessments evidence of hypothesis testing (convergent and discriminant validity) was identified; with a smaller number of assessments having some evidence of reliability and content validity. No assessments presented with evidence of structural validity, internal consistency or error measurement. Overall, all assessments were identified as having limitations with regards to evidence of psychometric quality.Conclusions: Further research is required to provide good evidence of psychometric quality for currently available language assessments. Of the assessments evaluated, the Assessment of Literacy and Language, the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-5th Edition, the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Preschool: 2nd Edition and the Preschool Language Scales-5th Edition presented with most evidence and are thus recommended for use.

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The New Reynell Developmental Language Scales: Descriptive account and illustrative case study

Cited by 9 publications

References 24 publications

Psychometric Properties of Child (0–5 Years) Outcome Measures as used in Randomized Controlled Trials of Parent Programs: A Systematic Review

Psychometric Properties of Child (0–5 Years) Outcome Measures as used in Randomized Controlled Trials of Parent Programs: A Systematic Review

Environmental enrichment as a therapy for autism: A clinical trial replication and extension.

Psychometric Properties of Language Assessments for Children Aged 4–12 Years: A Systematic Review

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