PEDIATRICS Vol. 48 No. 2 August 1971, pp. 268-276
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A SPEECH SCREENING PROCEDURE WITH THREE-YEAR-OLD CHILDREN

Miriam F. Fiedler Ph.D.1, Eric H. Lenneberg Ph.D.1, Ursula T. Rolfe M.D.1, and James E. Drorbaugh M.D1

1 Departments of Psychiatry and Medicine, Children's Hospital Medical Center, and the Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

A screening examination for use by nonprofessional interviewers in the home situation for evaluation of speech and language development of 3-year-old children was developed. The perinatal histories and developmental data for the first year of life were examined for 46 children who failed this screening examination and for 92 control subjects, matches for age, sex, and time of examination, who passed the screening examination. Significant differences were found between the groups in incidence of complications of pregnancy and labor, prematurity and in various aspects of development during the first year of life. Follow-up psychological examinations at 4 years of age and psychological and neurological examinations at 7 years of age found marked differences between the groups still present, with the speech failure group presenting a significantly higher incidence of a Variety of psychological and neurological deviations from the normal.

Submitted on September 22, 1970
Accepted on January 5, 1971




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