Browsing by Author "Lummekoski, Maria"

The Finnish version of the CSBS-DP Infant-Toddler Checklist (FinCSBS) is a screening questionnaire for early communication and language of 6–24 month old children filled by their parents. There is not much information available about the validity of the FnCSBS concerning 2-year-olds and in Finland it is primarily advised to be used at an earlier age point. This study aimed to produce more information of the validity of the FinCSBS at 2 years. The study of validity gives information about the usability of a method and can add eagerness to use it for example in child health clinics. This study sample is a part of the validation study of the short form version of the MacArthur Communication Inventories Finnish version (Sanaseula study). The sample included 50 healthy, monolingual Finnish-speaking 2-year-old children. The participants language skills were assessed with two other assessment methods. MacArthur-Bates Communication Inventories -method gave information about the children’s vocabulary size and composition and Bayley-III-test about the receptive and expressive language skills. Validity was assessed by comparing the results of FnCSBS and of other methods with Spearman’s correlation coefficient. Linear regression analysis was used to get information about how much FnCBSC total score and sex explained the variation of vocabulary size and receptive or expressive language skills at 2 years. In addition the language skills of children who had succeeded poorly and typically were compared. A lot of statistically significant, positive and moderately strong connections were found between the FnCSBS and vocabulary size, composition, receptive and expressive language. Especially the total score of the FnCSBS was in connection with the concurrent language skills even though the scores got close to the maximum in this age group, as the prelingual stage is coming to an end. The FnCSBS social composite had more varying and weaker connections to the language skills than the FnCSBS expressive and receptive language. The results showed that the validity of the FnCSBS at 2 years is still fairly good. The FnCSBS can be used at 2 years to recognize children at risk and to get information about the language skills, which helps to target early intervention and to add cost-effective and preventive care.