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J Child Psychol Psychiatry ; 65(8): 1087-1097, 2024 Aug.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38262448

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BACKGROUND: Oral language skills provide the foundation for formal education, yet many children enter school with language weaknesses. This study evaluated the efficacy of a new language enrichment programme, the Nuffield Early Language Intervention-Preschool (NELI Preschool), delivered to children in the year before they enter formal education. METHODS: We conducted a preregistered cluster randomised controlled trial in 65 nursery schools in England (https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN29838552). NELI Preschool consists of a 20-week whole-class language enrichment programme delivered by a teacher each day for 20 min. In addition, children with the weakest language skills in each class are allocated to receive additional targeted support delivered by classroom assistants (whole-class + targeted). The language skills of all children (n = 1,586) in participating classrooms were assessed using the LanguageScreen automated app (https://oxedandassessment.com/languagescreen/). Settings were then randomly allocated to an intervention or control group. The children with the weakest language in each class (whole-class + targeted children n = 438), along with four randomly selected children in each class allocated to the whole-class only programme (n = 288) were individually tested on a range of language measures. RESULTS: Children receiving NELI Preschool made larger gains than children in the control group on an oral language latent variable (whole-class children d = .26; whole-class + targeted children d = .16). CONCLUSIONS: This study provides good evidence that whole-class intervention delivered in preschool can produce educationally significant improvements in children's language skills. The intervention is scaleable and relatively low cost. These findings have important implications for educational and social policy.


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Intervenção Educacional Precoce , Humanos , Pré-Escolar , Masculino , Feminino , Intervenção Educacional Precoce/métodos , Inglaterra , Desenvolvimento da Linguagem , Terapia da Linguagem/métodos , Transtornos do Desenvolvimento da Linguagem/terapia , Escolas Maternais , Linguagem Infantil
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Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch ; 55(3): 904-917, 2024 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38776269

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PURPOSE: Oral language skills provide a critical foundation for formal education and especially for the development of children's literacy (reading and spelling) skills. It is therefore important for teachers to be able to assess children's language skills, especially if they are concerned about their learning. We report the development and standardization of a mobile app-LanguageScreen-that can be used by education professionals to assess children's language ability. METHOD: The standardization sample included data from approximately 350,000 children aged 3;06 (years;months) to 8;11 who were screened for receptive and expressive language skills using LanguageScreen. Rasch scaling was used to select items of appropriate difficulty on a single unidimensional scale. RESULTS: LanguageScreen has excellent psychometric properties, including high reliability, good fit to the Rasch model, and minimal differential item functioning across key student groups. Girls outperformed boys, and children with English as an additional language scored less well compared to monolingual English speakers. CONCLUSIONS: LanguageScreen provides an easy-to-use, reliable, child-friendly means of identifying children with language difficulties. Its use in schools may serve to raise teachers' awareness of variations in language skills and their importance for educational practice.


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Testes de Linguagem , Aplicativos Móveis , Psicometria , Humanos , Criança , Aplicativos Móveis/normas , Masculino , Feminino , Testes de Linguagem/normas , Pré-Escolar , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Psicometria/instrumentação , Psicometria/normas , Psicometria/métodos , Linguagem Infantil , Transtornos do Desenvolvimento da Linguagem/diagnóstico
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