Sahli A Sanem, Belgin Erol
Hearing and Speech Training Center, Vocational School of Health Services, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey.
Audiology Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, Istanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol. 2017 Jul;98:143-149. doi: 10.1016/j.ijporl.2017.05.003. Epub 2017 May 10.
Speech and language assessment is very important in early diagnosis of children with hearing and speech disorders. Aim of this study is to determine the validity and reliability of Preschool Language Scale (5th edition) test with its Turkish translation and adaptation.
Our study is conducted on 1320 children aged between 0-7 years 11 months. While 1044 of these children have normal hearing, language and speech development, 276 of them have receptive and/or expressive language disorder. After the English-Turkish and Turkish-English translations of PLS-5 made by two experts command of both languages, some of the test items are reorganized because of the grammatical features of Turkish and the cultural structure of the country. The pilot study was conducted with 378 children. The test which is reorganized in the light of data obtained in pilot application, is applied to children chosen randomly with layering technique from different regions of Turkey, then 15 days later the first test applied again to 120 children.
While 1044 of 1320 children aged between 0 and 7 years 11 months are normal, 276 of them have receptive and/or expressive language disorder. While 98 of 103 healthy children of 120 taken under the second evaluation have normal language development, 8 of 9 who used to have language development disorder in the past still remaining (Kappa coefficient:0,468, p<0,001). Pearson correaltion coefficient for TPLS-5 standard gauge are; IA raw score:0,937, IED raw score: 0,908 and TDP: 0,887 respectively. Correlation coefficient for age equivalance is found as IA:0,871, IED: 0,896, TDP: 0,887.
TPLS-5 is the first and only language test in our country that can evaluate receptive and/or expressive language skills of children aged between 0-7 years 11 months. Results of the study show that TPLS-5 is a valid and reliable language test for the Turkish children.
言语和语言评估在听力和言语障碍儿童的早期诊断中非常重要。本研究的目的是确定《学前语言量表》(第5版)测试及其土耳其语翻译和改编版本的有效性和可靠性。
我们的研究对1320名年龄在0至7岁11个月之间的儿童进行。其中1044名儿童听力、语言和言语发育正常,276名儿童有接受性和/或表达性语言障碍。在两位精通两种语言的专家完成《学前语言量表》第5版的英土和土英翻译后,由于土耳其语的语法特点和该国的文化结构,对一些测试项目进行了重新组织。对378名儿童进行了预试验。根据预试验获得的数据重新组织后的测试,应用于从土耳其不同地区采用分层技术随机选取的儿童,然后15天后对120名儿童再次进行首次测试。
在1320名年龄在0至7岁11个月之间的儿童中,1044名发育正常,276名有接受性和/或表达性语言障碍。在第二次评估的120名健康儿童中,103名中的98名语言发育正常,过去曾有语言发育障碍的9名儿童中仍有8名存在该问题(卡帕系数:0.468,p<0.001)。《土耳其学前语言量表》第5版标准量表的皮尔逊相关系数分别为:IA原始分数:0.937,IED原始分数:0.908,TDP:0.887。年龄等效性的相关系数为IA:0.871,IED:0.896,TDP:0.887。
《土耳其学前语言量表》第5版是我国首个也是唯一能评估0至7岁11个月儿童接受性和/或表达性语言技能的语言测试。研究结果表明,《土耳其学前语言量表》第5版对土耳其儿童是一种有效且可靠的语言测试。