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Early language and communication development in Chinese children: Adaption and validation of a parent report instrument

Topic:

NA

Authors:

Zhang, Xu, Jiang, Sun, Wang, Song, Dong, Zhu, Jiang, Sheng

Journal/Publication:

International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Year:

2020
Participant Age Range:
2 –
48 months

Sample Size:

1300

Participant Language:

Mandarin

Abstract:

Purpose: To fulfil the needs of assessment tools in the Chinese population, we adapted the LENA Developmental Snapshot, a parent survey that measures early language and communication development in English-speaking children. We reported the psychometric properties of the adapted questionnaire and evaluated the metric and functional equivalence between the adapted and the original instruments.

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