Research article summary (published 29 Sep 2006):

The ordering of milestones in language development for children from 1 to 6 years of age.

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PURPOSE: To scale language milestones in a group of 527 children to provide an instrument for screening language development. Procedure The questionnaire regarding these milestones was completed by parental report. It was evaluated whether the scaled milestones satisfied the assumptions of the Mokken item response model. RESULTS: The scalability of the final scale of 14 milestones was strong (H = .95), its reliability was high (rho = .96), and it satisfied the assumptions of the Mokken model. CONCLUSIONS: A single, unidimensional scale of diverse milestones was developed. It taps lexical, syntactic, and phonological skills, as well as both receptive and expressive language skills, and is well suited for mapping progress in language ability.

Author information

Author/s: Luinge, Margreet R (MR); Post, Wendy J (WJ); Wit, Hero P (HP); Goorhuis-Brouwer, Sieneke M (SM);

Affiliation: Afdeling Logopedie, Hanzehogeschool Groningen, Eyssoniusplein 18, 9714 CE Groningen, The Netherlands. m.r.luinge(-atsign-)pl.hanze.nl

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR (J Speech Lang Hear Res), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2006-Oct; vol 49 (issue 5) : pp 923-40

Dates: Created 2006/11/01; Completed 2007/03/12;

PMID: 17077206, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00)

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Age Factors Child Child Language Child, Preschool Female Humans Infant Language

Language Male Mass Screening - methods; standards Neurolinguistic Programming Parents Questionnaires Reference Values Reproducibility of Results

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