Comparisons of children with delayed and normal language at 24 months of age on measures of behavioral difficulties, social and cognitive development
✍ Scribed by David K. Carson; Thomas Klee; Cecyle K. Perry; Gail Muskina; Tracy Donaghy
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 147 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0163-9641
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✦ Synopsis
This investigation compared a group of expressive language-delayed children with languagenormal children of the same age (M ϭ 25.7 months; SD ϭ 0.8 months) on various measures of development and behavioral difficulties. Data were obtained through language sampling, direct developmental assessment, and maternal reports of children's development and behavior. Scores on measures of social and cognitive development for children with language delay were found to be significantly lower than normals. Further, maternal reports indicated that these children displayed significantly more behavioral difficulties overall than did the language-normal children. Specifically, the language-delayed children exhibited more symptoms of anxiety and depression, withdrawal, sleep problems, and other behavioral disturbances. In addition, children evaluated as expressive language delayed scored significantly lower on measures of receptive language, maternal ratings of communicative competency, and other indices of language proficiency. The results point to the centrality of expressive and receptive language development in relation to early-appearing behavior problems and other developmental milestones. With these findings An earlier version of this paper was presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in Indianapolis, March 1995.