Title

A Follow-up Study of Language and Behavioral Concerns of Children Prenatally Exposed to Drugs

Abstract

This follow-up study was designed to describe the speech-language and behavioral characteristics of children prenatally exposed to drugs Including cocaine (PED+C) within three age ranges and to compare their behaviors with the findings of an earlier study conducted by the authors. Seven speech-language pathologists (SLPs) completed a survey form of a variety of questions related to the identification and evaluation of communication deficits in children PED+C. The SLPs provided in-depth descriptions regarding the number of children PED+C that they had assessed and/or treated within 11/2 years of receiving the survey, the relationship of the children to their caregivers, the evaluation instruments and procedures used to identify and ascertain speech and language deficits, and the speech and language behaviors observed. Comparisons between the findings of the present study and the authors' previous study revealed: (1) the numbers of children PED+C seen by SLPs increased; (2) the variety and types of evaluation instruments used to determine speech-language strengths and weaknesses increased; and (3) the speech-language profiles of children PED+C generally remained the same. It was found, however, that interventionists, including SLPs, frequently focused on the oral communication skills of younger children and gave less consideration to the children's nonlinguistic behaviors during transdisciplinary-based assessments and during in-depth individual evaluations.

Publication Date

12-1-1998

Publication Title

Infant-Toddler Intervention

Volume

8

Issue

1

Number of Pages

29-51

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

Socpus ID

0006698688 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0006698688

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