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

ABSTRACT:

Background

The 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.

Methods

A total of 680 monolingual

SUBMITTER: Auza B A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10316708 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature