Parental Concern in Typical and Atypical Language Acquisition of Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Children in Adverse Social Conditions

Peñaloza, Christian; Benavides, Alejandra Auza; Murata, Chiharu

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“…The data presented in this study emphasize the importance of considering parental linguistic concerns as part of a screening process. As previously stated, parents can be valuable allies in obtaining reliable information about children, as they are attuned to their communicative and linguistic needs and difficulties, regardless of their cultural and linguistic backgrounds ( Thal et al, 2000 ; Bishop and McDonald, 2009 ; Guiberson and Rodríguez, 2010 ; Peñaloza et al, 2021 ). This is particularly significant because the absence of suitable screening and assessment tools for certain underrepresented populations has resulted in inaccurate under-diagnosis of children with DLD.…”

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Predictive validity of a parental questionnaire for identifying children with developmental language disorders

2023

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BackgroundThe underdiagnosis of developmental language disorder (DLD) in children is a serious problem in developing countries with limited resources. It has long been noted that the concerns parents have about their children’s health and development are richly informative, and if this information can be used for diagnosis, it may provide a means to address the problem of underdiagnosis of DLD. This study aimed to quantify the utility of parental linguistic concern questions (PLCQ) on the identification of language disorders in monolingual Spanish-speaking children in Mexico. It also explored whether a combination of biological and environmental conditions questions (BECQ) might improve the performance of a screening test to identify DLD.MethodsA total of 680 monolingual Mexican Spanish-speaking children and their parents from urban areas in Mexico participated in the study. The distribution of responses to questions about DLD concerns was compared between 185 children diagnosed with DLD and 495 control subjects, and multiple logistic regression analysis was performed to select questions with high predictivity, based on the Akaike information criterion. The diagnostic utility of the questions was assessed by receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves, stratum-specific likelihood ratios (SSLRs), and changes in pretest and post-test probabilities of DLD. A similar procedure was used to explore whether adding BECQ would improve the diagnostic utility of questions about DLD concerns using data of 128 children.ResultsFour questions regarding parental linguistic concerns were found to be useful in identifying children with DLD. When all four concerns were present, the SSLR was 8.79, while it was only 0.27 when there were no concerns at all. The estimates of DLD probability increased from 0.12 to 0.55 at pretest and post-test. On the other hand, the BECQ did not perform as well as the PLCQ in identifying DLD, and the improvement in diagnostic performance it provided was limited to one question.ConclusionThe parental questionnaire can be used as a screening tool to help in identifying children with DLD. The data presented in this study underscore the importance of considering linguistic parental concerns as part of the screening process. This is a realistic option to provide a solution to the current problem of underdiagnosis of DLD in Mexico.

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Predictive validity of a parental questionnaire for identifying children with developmental language disorders

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“…Tento postup využili např. McLeod a Harrison (2009), Guibertson et al (2011 či Peñaloza et al (2021). Podobnou konstrukci dotazníku využili například také Kadesjö et al (2004) pro zjištění míry prevalence ADHD v populaci dětí ve věku 5-15 let.…”

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Results of a parental questionnaire examining speech and language development in Czech-speaking children aged 5.5-6.5 years - study project

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Parental Concern in Typical and Atypical Language Acquisition of Monolingual Spanish-Speaking Children in Adverse Social Conditions

Cited by 2 publications

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Predictive validity of a parental questionnaire for identifying children with developmental language disorders

Predictive validity of a parental questionnaire for identifying children with developmental language disorders

Results of a parental questionnaire examining speech and language development in Czech-speaking children aged 5.5-6.5 years - study project

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