Språkscreening av 2,5-3-åringar identifierar även andra avvikelser. Väldokumenterad metodik är förutsättningen
Engelsk titel: Language screening of 2,5-3-year-old children identifies also other deviations. Well-documented methods are necessary
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Författare:
Westerlund M
Email: monica.westerlund @akademiska.se
Språk: Swe
Antal referenser: 26
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 08011163
Sammanfattning
Different screening methods have long been used at our Child Health Care (CHC) centres in order to identify language disorders (LD) in preschool children. Only some of them meet the stipulated screening requirements and the question is if developmental phenomena are on the whole suited for screening. The conclusion from international review studies is that the current state of knowledge is insufficient to warrant introduction of screening for LD. To assert the opposite is of course not possible, but knowing that severe LD is often a marker of later identified neuropsychiatric and/or intellectual disorders and that some of the screening methods used by CHC-nurses do identify severely disabled children at around 2_-3 years of age, might provide a justification for LD-screening after all. Furthermore, and contrary to the situation in many other countries, attendance rate at the different CHC-assessments in Sweden is very high, a fact which gives power to a screening procedure.