Language Retardation Screening And Diagnosing Scales For 1～3 Year Old In Beijing City

Objective: Language retardation is the one of most serious diseases resulting in human being all over the world. In present, we haven't got a kind of screening tools that can be used for the early diagnosis and intervention of language retardation. Working out a kind of mental development scales suitable for language retardation diagnosing is obviously very important. This kind of mental development scales is suitable for 1-3 year 0ld, and consisted of six subscales. It can assess the child's ability in hearing, understanding speech, expressing speech, personal-social, locomotor. Therefore, we set about drafting the scale and establishing the urban norm of Beijing.Method: In the light of the Beijing statistics yearbook(2000), the samples consisted of 582 children aged 1-3 years old were collected in a stratified and random way according to city rank, age, sex, paternal occupation. Each subject was tested individually and filled in a form. In the end, all the forms were analyzed applying in SPSS 10.0 For Windows.Results: The sample had better representation. Ttem analysis indicated that the scale had suitable difficulty and highly discriminating function. The scale had high reliability and validity. The component analysis result of the scale shows that the 5 factors are necessary.Conclusion: Screening and diagnosing language retardation scales have ideal reliability and validity. Apart from using in the intelligent assessment in Beijing, it can be used extensively through the country.