Event overview
The Surrey Communication and Language in Education Study (SCALES) is the first population study of language development and language impairment (LI) at school entry in the UK.
DATE & TIME: Wed 11 February 2015, 4 pm
SPEAKER: Professor Courtenay Norbury, Royal Holloway, University of London
The Surrey Communication and Language in Education Study (SCALES) is the first population study of language development and language impairment (LI) at school entry in the UK. This four-year longitudinal study will trace the development of children’s language from Reception to Year 3. Our primary aim is to investigate the associations between language impairment at school entry and other developmental attainments (e.g. behaviour, attention, social skill) and how these relationships change over time.
In 2012 the SCALES screen was completed for 7,267 children in mainstream reception classrooms across more than 160 schools within Surrey. The screen comprised a short form of the Children’s Communication Checklist-2 (CCC-S), the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and the new Early Years Foundation Stage Profile (EYFSP), as well as questions regarding the child’s home language, special educational needs status, teacher concerns and existing diagnoses. In this talk, I will explore the relationships between language, behaviour and education attainment in our screened sample. I will explain how initial findings influenced our decisions about entry into the second stage of the study, in which detailed assessments of language, cognition and behaviour were undertaken on 600 of the children in Year 1. I will also outline the challenges we face in defining language impairment and determining accurate and meaningful prevalence rates of language impairment at school entry.
BRIEF BIO:
Courtenay Norbury is a Professor of Psychology at Royal Holloway, University of London. She started as a speech-language therapist in East London before completing her PhD with Dorothy Bishop at the University of Oxford. She has published more than 30 papers on developmental language disorders and is particularly interested in comparing clinical profiles of language in children with specific language impairment and children with autism spectrum disorder. Her current work is funded by the Wellcome Trust and she is an Editor at the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry.
www.gold.ac.uk/cccc/whitehead/
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 11 Feb 2015 | 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
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