Psychometric Assessment of Pilot Language and Communication Items on the 2018 and 2019 National Survey of Children's Health.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Until recently, normative data on language and communication development among children in the United States have not been available to inform critical efforts to promote language development and prevent impairments. This study represents the first psychometric assessment of nationally representative data derived from a National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) pilot measure of language and communication development among children ages 1 to 5 years.

Methods

We analyzed 14,573 parent responses to language and communication items on the 2018 and 2019 NSCH to evaluate whether the newly added 11 items represent a single latent trait for language and communication development and to determine normative age of success on each item. We applied weighted, one-parameter It

SUBMITTER: Hutchins H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9694117 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep-Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature