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CATALISE: A multinational and multidisciplinary Delphi consensus study. Identifying language impairments in children
Authors
Catherine Adams
Lisa Archibald
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Gillian Baird
Ann Bauer
Jude Bellair
D. V.M. Bishop
Christopher Boyle
Elizabeth Brownlie
Glenn Carter
Becky Clark
Judy Clegg
Nancy Cohen
Gina Conti-Ramsden
Julie Dockrell
Janet Dunn
Susan Ebbels
Aoife Gallagher
Simon Gibbs
Emma Gore-Langton
Trisha Greenhalgh
Mandy Grist
Mary Hartshorne
Alison Hüneke
Marc Joanisse
Sally Kedge
Thomas Klee
Saloni Krishnan
Linda Lascelles
James Law
Laurence Leonard
Margaret J. Snowling
Paul A. Thompson
Publication date
1 July 2016
Publisher
Scholarship@Western
Abstract
© 2016 Bishop et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Delayed or impaired language development is a common developmental concern, yet there is little agreement about the criteria used to identify and classify language impairments in children. Children\u27s language difficulties are at the interface between education, medicine and the allied professions, who may all adopt different approaches to conceptualising them. Our goal in this study was to use an online Delphi technique to see whether it was possible to achieve consensus among professionals on appropriate criteria for identifying children who might benefit from specialist services. We recruited a panel of 59 experts representing ten disciplines (including education, psychology, speech-language therapy/pathology, paediatrics and child psychiatry) from English-speaking countries (Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, United Kingdom and USA). The starting point for round 1 was a set of 46 statements based on articles and commentaries in a special issue of a journal focusing on this topic. Panel members rated each statement for both relevance and validity on a sevenpoint scale, and added free text comments. These responses were synthesised by the first two authors, who then removed, combined or modified items with a view to improving consensus. The resulting set of statements was returned to the panel for a second evaluation (round 2). Consensus (percentage reporting \u27agree\u27 or \u27strongly agree\u27) was at least 80 percent for 24 of 27 round 2 statements, though many respondents qualified their response with written comments. These were again synthesised by the first two authors. The resulting consensus statement is reported here, with additional summary of relevant evidence, and a concluding commentary on residual disagreements and gaps in the evidence base
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