A population‐based study of communicative participation in preschool children with speech‐language impairments

Abstract

This work can help us to move beyond traditional impairment-based thinking and shows that children can make meaningful communicative changes regardless of their function.

Assessing communicative participation in preschool children with the Focus on the Outcomes of Communication Under Six: a scoping review

“…3 Generally, children who had better functional communication had more rapid development and higher FOCUS scores, a finding also documented by Hidecker et al 19 Importantly, however, children in the lowest levels of function (CFCS levels IV and V) still developed, although at a slower rate. 18 Based on the data, children in CFCS levels I to III were predicted to make clinically meaningful change in under 4 months, while children in 28,33 Canada (n=17) 13,15,16,[18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26]29,[37][38][39]42 Germany (n=1) 41 Italy (n=1) 40 Jamaica (n=1) 32 UK (n=1) 27 USA (n=1) 34 Vietnam (n=1) 35…”

“…Descriptive or discriminative (n=4) [32][33][34][35] Evaluative (n=13) 16,[19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29] Reliability and validity testing (n=8) 13,15,[37][38][39][40][41][42] Population General speech, language, and communication impairments (n=13) 13,15,16,18,19,[22][23][24][25][37][38][39]42 Autism spectrum disorder (n=1) 32 Developmental language disorder (n=1) 35 Speech sound disorder (n=7) [26][27][28][29][33][34]41 Late talkers (n=2) 20,21 Typically developing (n=1) 40…”

“…Original 50-item FOCUS (n=20) 13,15,16,[18][19][20][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][32][33][34][35][37][38][39] FOCUS-F (n=1) 42 FOCUS-G (n=1) 41 FOCUS-I (n=1) 40 FOCUS-34 (n=2) 20,21 FOCUS Thomas-Stonell et al 15 Case series 4 Thomas-Stonell et al 16 Case series 4 Hidecker et al 19 Case series 4 Kwok et al 20 Case series 4 Cunningham et al 21 Case series 4 Thomas-Stonell et al 22 Case series 4 Washington et al 23 Cohort 3 Washington et al 24 Cohort 3 Namasivayam et al 26 Cohort 3 Pennington et al 27 Case series 4 McLeod et al 28 Randomized trial 2 Namasivayam et al 29 Cohort 3 Washington et al 38 Case series 4…”

Measuring communicative participation in population‐based samples of children with speech and language difficulties

“…The paper by Cunningham et al makes a valuable contribution to addressing this issue. To see meaningful change post‐treatment, we may need to shift the focus of the primary outcome measure from specific impairment‐based measures (i.e.…”

“…measures of communicative participation or quality of life). As highlighted by Cunningham et al, while intervention or treatment may not result in a change in standard scores on a speech and language assessment, parents may report a change in how their child is understood by others or how their child socializes with other children/peers.…”