Babbling and first words in children with slow expressive development

Fasolo, Mirco; Majorano, Marinella; D’Odorico, Laura

doi:10.1080/02699200701600015

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“…Conventions of other researchers (Fasolo, Majorano, & D'Odorico, 2008; Nathani & Oller, 2001; Paul & Jennings, 1992; Stoel-Gammon, 1985, 1989, 2001b; Thal et al, 1995; Whitehurst et al, 1991) were followed in identifying and segmenting the children's words and prelinguistic vocalizations, with some adaptations. Minimally, a child utterance had to contain normal phonation.…”

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Consonant and syllable complexity of toddlers with Down syndrome and mixed-aetiology developmental delays

Sokol

Fey

2013

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

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This study examines whether speech sound production of toddlers with Down syndrome (DS) is on par with or more severely impaired than that of mental age (MA) peers with developmental delay due to aetiologies other than Down syndrome at two points within an 18-month period near the onset of spoken word production. The utterances of 26 children with DS, aged 24–33 months, with a mean MA of 14.3 months, originally studied by Fey et al. (2006) and Warren et al. (2008) were compared to those of a group of 22 children with similar intellectual and communication delay but no DS (NDS). Phonological measures included the size of the consonant inventory, syllable shape complexity, and number of communication acts with canonical vocalizations. At Time 1, the DS group performed as well as or better than the NDS group on these measures of speech production. At Time 2, 18 months later, the DS group was behind the NDS group on the same measures. Results extended the pattern of more severe impairment in children with DS than NDS peers commonly noted in expressive language to measures of phonological development.

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Consonant and syllable complexity of toddlers with Down syndrome and mixed-aetiology developmental delays

Sokol

Fey

2013

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

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“…Delayed onset of CB – after 10 months of age – is considered to be a strong predictor of difficulties in speech, language and communication later on . The late onset of CB has been found to be significantly associated with a smaller expressive vocabulary at 18, 24 and 30 months . Lee found a close connection between the size of a child's early expressive vocabulary and their literacy development.…”

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Observation method identifies that a lack of canonical babbling can indicate future speech and language problems

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Aim: We investigated how accurate observations of canonical babbling (CB) were and explored predictive babbling measures in children with and without medical diagnoses of conditions that can lead to speech and language problems.Methods: From 2012 to 2014 this Stockholm-based study recruited 38 children aged nine months to 21 months with medical diagnoses and 30 children aged 10 months without diagnoses and included 21 previously studied 12-month-old children without medical diagnoses. CB and consonant sound production were directly observed by video recording natural play with a caregiver. The percentage of CB was calculated from each recording, and a validated observation form was used. How accurately the children with and without CB were classified was investigated with sensitivity and specificity. The groups were compared using predictive babbling variables. Results:The observation method identified children with and without CB well, with a specificity of 0.89 and sensitivity of 0.93, respectively. Children with predictive babbling measures were identified in the clinical group (specificity 0.93-0.97), and a lack of these measures indicated a risk of being in the clinical group (odds ratios > 10). The sensitivity was low (0.32-0.42). Conclusion:Observation effectively identified a lack of CB and supported the importance of assessing babbling measures.

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“…Of particular significance is the fact that the MB‐CDI is the first questionnaire of its kind to be widely translated and adapted for use in many different languages (http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/cdi/cdiwelcome.htm). The Italian version of the MB‐CDI, which is known as ‘Primo Vocabolario del Bambino’ (PVB; First Vocabulary of the Child), has been validated on a large sample of children and has been shown to be sensitive in identifying children with delayed onset of language (Fasolo et al 2008) and in describing and evaluating language delays and disorders in children with ascertained deficits (e.g., Down syndrome, Williams syndrome and deafness) (Vicari et al 2002, Rinaldi and Caselli 2009). Like the MB‐CDI, the PVB includes two complementary scales: the PVB infant form (Words and Gesture) and the PVB toddler form (Words and Sentences) (Caselli et al 2007, 2012).…”

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Assessing lexicon: validation and developmental data of the Picture Naming Game (PiNG), a new picture naming task for toddlers

Bello

Giannantoni

Pettenati

et al. 2012

Intl J Lang & Comm Disor

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Overall, the results suggest that PiNG is suitable for children in the age range considered to evaluate language abilities. It can be used together with other tools with clinical and theoretical objectives also to describe lexical abilities in atypical populations, such as children with cognitive and/or language impairment, as well as with late-talking children. Finally, the four subtests can be administered separately or combined, which provides flexibility in clinical use, in that the individual child's linguistic and/or cognitive characteristics and level can be taken into consideration.

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Babbling and first words in children with slow expressive development

Cited by 44 publications

References 42 publications

Consonant and syllable complexity of toddlers with Down syndrome and mixed-aetiology developmental delays

Consonant and syllable complexity of toddlers with Down syndrome and mixed-aetiology developmental delays

Observation method identifies that a lack of canonical babbling can indicate future speech and language problems

Assessing lexicon: validation and developmental data of the Picture Naming Game (PiNG), a new picture naming task for toddlers

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