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Screening for language difficulties in disadvantaged populations on entry to early years education: challenges and opportunities
- Abstract:
- Children from areas of social disadvantage experience delays in their language development, with significant numbers of children entering nursery classes with limited oral language skills. These difficulties are exacerbated when a child’s home language is not the language of instruction. This causes challenges for early years practitioners in developing the classroom language learning environment and in targeting resources for the children. There is a need for teachers to access tools to profile children’s language skills to inform their practice. Parent completed measures provide a viable means of assessing oracy skills on entry to nursery school. We examined the feasibility and validity of using a modified parental completed language checklist in areas of social disadvantage as an indicator of children’s language skills as they enter nursery classes.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.3389/fped.2022.833603
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- Frontiers Media
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- Frontiers in Pediatrics More from this journal
- Volume:
- 10
- Article number:
- 833603
- Publication date:
- 2022-04-25
- Acceptance date:
- 2022-03-18
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2296-2360
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English
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1249467
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pubs:1249467
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- Copyright © 2022 Dockrell, Forrest, Law, Mathers and Charlton. This is an openaccess article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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