ReviewBMC pediatrics2021
Screening for language and speech delay in children under five years.
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- A simulation study of a long-term neurodevelopmental care pathway for children with congenital heart disease.Pediatric research · 2026Article
- Children with speech and language delay aged 2-10 Years in Palestine: A case-control study of socio-demographic, biological, familial, and environmental factors.SAGE open medicine · 2026Article
- The child opportunity index and developmental outcomes in early childhood.Frontiers in public health · 2026Observational
- Swedish Boys Were Almost Twice as Likely to be Referred for Suspected Language Difficulties Than Girls and at an Earlier Age.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2025Article
- Investigating Developmental Status of Children Aged 0-5 Years and Its Association With Child Gender, Family Background and Geographic Locations in Australian Community-Based Early Learning Centres.Child: care, health and development · 2025Article
- Language Comprehension Developmental Milestones in Typically Developing Children Assessed by the New Language Phenotype Assessment (LPA).Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Screening versions of the European Portuguese MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories Short Forms: development and preliminary validation.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Early language screening at 30 months of age in Swedish child health services-a qualitative study of nurses' perspectives.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2025Article
- Association between neural prosody discrimination and language abilities in toddlers: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
- Determinants of speech and language delay among children aged 12 months to 12 years at Yekatit 12 Hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a case-control study.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
- Social inequalities in early childhood language development during the COVID-19 pandemic: a descriptive study with data from three consecutive school entry surveys in Germany.International journal for equity in health · 2024Article
- Child health care nurses' experience of language screening for 2.5-year-old children: A qualitative study.Nursing open · 2023Article
- Association between interruption of intervention and language performance in young children with language delay-a cohort study during COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
- Asking parents about babbling at 10 months produced valid answers but did not predict language screening result 2 years later.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2022Article
- Factors Associated with the Suspected Delay in the Language Development of Early Childhood in Southern Thailand.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Primary health care for children - evidence for prevention.BMC pediatrics · 2021Article
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Abstract
We looked at existing recommendations and supporting evidence on the effectiveness of universal screening for language and speech delay in children under 5 years of age for short- and long-term outcomes.We conducted a literature search up to the 20th of November 2019 by using key terms and manual search in selected sources. We summarized the recommendations and the strength of the recommendation when and as reported by the authors. We summarized the main findings of systematic reviews with the certainty of the evidence as reported on the accuracy of the screening tests for detecting language and speech delay, the efficacy of existing interventions for children with language and speech delay, and the potential harms associated with screening and the associated interventions.Several screening tools are used to assess language and speech delay with a wide variation in their accuracy. Targeted interventions improve some measures of speech and language delay and disorders. However, there is no evidence on the effectiveness of such interventions in children detected by screening with no specific concerns about their speech or language before screening. There is no evidence assessing whether universal screening for language and speech delay in a primary care setting improves short and long-term outcomes (including speech and language outcomes and other outcomes). Finally, there is no evidence on the harms of screening for language and speech delay in primary care settings, and there is limited evidence assessing the potential harms of interventions.
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