The Agreement between Parent-Reported and Directly Measured Child Language and Parenting Behaviors.

ABSTRACT: Parenting behaviors are commonly targeted in early interventions to improve children's language development. Accurate measurement of both parenting behaviors and children's language outcomes is thus crucial for sensitive assessment of intervention outcomes. To date, only a small number of studies have compared parent-reported and directly measured behaviors, and these have been hampered by small sample sizes and inaccurate statistical techniques, such as correlations. The Bland-Altman Method and Reduced Major Axis regression represent more reliable alternatives because they allow us to quantify fixed and proportional bias between measures. In this study, we draw on data from two Australian early childhood cohorts (N = 201 parents and slow-to-talk toddlers aged 24 months; and N

SUBMITTER: Bennetts SK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5104739 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature