Predicting Language Outcomes for Internationally Adopted Children

Autor/in	Glennen, Sharon L.
Titel	Predicting Language Outcomes for Internationally Adopted Children
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 50 (2007) 2, S.529-548 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
DOI	10.1044/1092-4388(2007/036)
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Articulation (Speech); Early Intervention; Language Patterns; Receptive Language; Expressive Language; Adoption; Language Acquisition; Toddlers; Predictor Variables; Evaluation; Child Development; Child Language; Language Impairments; Vocabulary Development; Europe; Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales; Developmental Quotient; MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sprachmodell; Sprachstruktur; Rezeptive Kommunikationsfähigkeit; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Prädiktor; Evaluierung; Kindesentwicklung; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Wortschatzarbeit; Europa
Abstract	Purpose: Language and speech are difficult to assess in newly arrived internationally adopted children. The purpose of this study was to determine if assessments completed when toddlers were first adopted could predict language outcomes at age 2. Local norms were used to develop early intervention guidelines that were evaluated against age 2 outcomes. Patterns of language emergence were also analyzed. Method: Twenty-seven children between 11 and 23 months of age adopted from Eastern Europe were followed from adoption through the 1st year home. Results from initial assessments using the Communication and Symbolic Behavior Scales--Developmental Profile (CSBS-DP; A. Wetherby & B. Prizant, 2002) and MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory--Words and Gestures (MCDI-WG; L. Fenson et al., 1993) were compared against speech and language outcomes 1 year later when the children were 2 years of age. Results: By age 2, receptive language and articulation were developing well; expressive language was still emerging. Initial assessment using the CSBS-DP Behavior Sample and MCDI-WG Words Understood Developmental Quotient predicted age 2 language outcomes. Early intervention guidelines based on these 2 measures had strong positive and negative likelihood ratios (LR) when using age 2 outcomes as the criteria (LR+ = 21.00; LR- = 0.00). Six of the 27 children (22%) had slow language development in comparison to their peers. Conclusion: Newly adopted children with delays on prelinguistic and vocabulary comprehension measures were highly likely to have slow language development at age 2. Initial assessments of these abilities should be used to make early intervention decisions. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10