PMID- 25179239
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20161213
LR  - 20161230
IS  - 0973-7693 (Electronic)
IS  - 0019-5456 (Linking)
VI  - 81 Suppl 2
DP  - 2014 Dec
TI  - CDC Kerala 7: Effect of early language intervention among children 0-3 y with 
      speech and language delay.
PG  - S102-9
LID - 10.1007/s12098-014-1555-8 [doi]
AB  - OBJECTIVE: To assess the effect of systematic clinic and home based early 
      language intervention program in children reporting to the early language 
      intervention clinic with full partnership of specially trained developmental 
      therapist and the parents. METHODS: All babies between 0 and 3 y referred to 
      Child Development Centre (CDC) Kerala for suspected speech/language delay were 
      assessed and those without hearing impairment were screened first using Language 
      Evaluation Scale Trivandrum (LEST) and assessed in detail using Receptive 
      Expressive Emergent Language Scale (REELS). Those having language delay are 
      enrolled into the early language intervention program for a period of 6 mo, 1 h 
      at the CDC clinic once every month followed by home stimulation for rest of the 
      month by the mother trained at CDC. RESULTS: Out of the total 455 children 
      between 0 and 3 y, who successfully completed 6 mo intervention, the mean pre and 
      post intervention language quotient (LQ) were 60.79 and 70.62 respectively and 
      the observed 9.83 increase was statistically significant. The developmental 
      diagnosis included developmental delay (62.4%), global developmental delay 
      (18.5%), Trisomy and other chromosomal abnormalities (10.5%), microcephaly and 
      other brain problems (9.9%), misarticulation (8.4%), autistic features (5.3%) and 
      cleft palate and lip (3.3%) in the descending order. CONCLUSIONS: In the present 
      study among 455 children between 0 and 3 y without hearing impairment, who 
      successfully completed 6 mo early language intervention, the mean pre and post 
      intervention LQ were 60.79 and 70.62 respectively and the observed 9.83 increase 
      was statistically significant.
FAU - Nair, M K C
AU  - Nair MK
AD  - Child Development Centre, Thiruvananthapuram Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram, 
      695011, Kerala, India, cdcmkc@gmail.com.
FAU - Mini, A O
AU  - Mini AO
FAU - Leena, M L
AU  - Leena ML
FAU - George, Babu
AU  - George B
FAU - Harikumaran Nair, G S
AU  - Harikumaran Nair GS
FAU - Bhaskaran, Deepa
AU  - Bhaskaran D
FAU - Russell, Paul Swamidhas Sudhakar
AU  - Russell PS
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20140903
PL  - India
TA  - Indian J Pediatr
JT  - Indian journal of pediatrics
JID - 0417442
SB  - IM
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Humans
MH  - Infant
MH  - Language Development Disorders/etiology/*therapy
EDAT- 2014/09/03 06:00
MHDA- 2016/12/15 06:00
CRDT- 2014/09/03 06:00
PHST- 2014/03/24 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2014/08/05 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2014/09/03 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2014/09/03 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2016/12/15 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.1007/s12098-014-1555-8 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Indian J Pediatr. 2014 Dec;81 Suppl 2:S102-9. doi: 10.1007/s12098-014-1555-8. 
      Epub 2014 Sep 3.