Asking parents about babbling at 10 months produced valid answers but did not predict language screening result 2 years later.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

We evaluated the concurrent and predictive validity of questions to parents of 10-month-old children about babbling.

Methods

Children with at least one native Swedish-speaking parent were eligible for inclusion in this prospective longitudinal study. The parents were asked three questions about babbling at a routine healthcare visit. If parents reported a lack of canonical babbling (CB), children were assessed by a speech and language pathologist to evaluate the questions' concurrent validity. We then examined whether the babbling questions predicted which children would fail the routine language screening at 2.5/3 years.

Results

Fifteen of the 1126 children lacked CB according to the parent responses and the expert assessment confirmed 12 of these cases, providin

SUBMITTER: Lieberman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9541482 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature