Journal article
Who gets help for pre-school communication problems? Data from a prospective community study
J Skeat, M Wake, OC Ukoumunne, P Eadie, L Bretherton, S Reilly
Child Care Health and Development | WILEY-BLACKWELL | Published : 2014
DOI: 10.1111/cch.12032
Abstract
Objective: Pre-school communication problems are common, with implications for school readiness and educational achievement. Help is available from a variety of community healthcare providers. This study examined the extent to which help is received, and the predictors of service receipt. Design and setting: Prospective community study, in Melbourne, Victoria. Participants and method: At age 4 years, we assessed the speech, receptive and expressive language and fluency of 1607 children and gave feedback to their parents. At age 5 years, 983 families provided data on service use for communication problems between and 4 and 5 years. We compared service use between participants with and without..
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Funding Acknowledgements
We thank the participating Maternal and Child Health nurses, the families, the research assistants who collected the data, and all the ELVS investigators who were not co-authors on this paper. Research at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute is supported by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program. The principal investigator of the ELVS study is S.R. Ethical approval for the study was obtained from Human Research Ethics Committees at the Royal Children's Hospital (#23081) and La Trobe University (#03-32).