Screening for language development of preterm infants: relationship between two assessment instruments

ABSTRACT Purpose: to associate two screening instruments used to assess global and language development of preterm infants. Methods: a study including 69 children aged 0-24 months of corrected age, premature at birth, who were admitted to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Researchers used an anamnesis and two protocols: Early Language Milestone Scale (ELM) and Observation and Monitoring Guide for Children from 0-48 months of age. According to the categorical and numerical variables, the protocols were associated with each other through descriptive percentages and non-parametric statistical tests, such as the Chi-square, Spearman's rank correlation coefficient and Mann-Whitney U, Kruskal-Wallis test and multiple correspondences (p