Language Development of Non-verbal Children Age 3 Years through 7 Years, 2007 to 2012 [Kansas City Metro Area]

The Language Development of Non-verbal Children Age 3 Years through 7 Years in the Kansas Metro Area is one of the three projects in the Communication of People with MR, 2006 to 2012 Series, which focuses on identifying participant variables that predict success in increasing communication skills of individual with intellectual disabilities. Data for Dataset 1 of this study were collected to illustrate how acquisition of symbolic communication using Voice Output Communication Aid (VOCA) affects the development of successful communication exchanges. For the data collection of Dataset 1, children were recruited by contacting school districts in and near the Kansas City metropolitan area, specifically, in Topeka, Kansas, and Wichita, Kansas. Teachers and speech-language pathologists were asked to nominate any children meeting specific criteria. The 93 children who were enrolled were administered the Mullen Scales of Early Learning and the Preschool Language Scale. A structured play assessment was also administered. Subsequently, data for Dataset 2 was collected to analyze and compare 19 Spanish-speaking children to the original sample. Both data files contain the results of Complexity of Communication Scale, a measure developed by the Communication of People with MR project.

《堪萨斯都市地区3至7岁非语言儿童语言发展》项目是《2006至2012年系列之人们与MR的沟通》三部曲之一，旨在识别预测个体智力障碍者沟通技能提升成功的参与变量。本研究数据集1的收集旨在展示使用语音输出沟通辅助设备（Voice Output Communication Aid，简称VOCA）获取符号沟通对成功沟通交流发展的影响。数据集1的数据收集是通过联系堪萨斯城都市区及其周边的学区，特别是堪萨斯州的托皮卡和威奇托，招募儿童完成的。教师和言语语言病理学家被要求提名符合特定标准的儿童。共有93名儿童被登记入组，并接受了穆伦早期学习量表（Mullen Scales of Early Learning）和学前语言量表（Preschool Language Scale）的测试。此外，还进行了结构化游戏评估。随后，收集了数据集2的数据，以分析和比较19名西班牙语儿童与原始样本。这两个数据文件均包含了由人们与MR的沟通项目开发的沟通复杂度量表的结果。