UK speech and language therapists’ assessment of children's expressive language, and functional impairment and impact, following the CATALISE publications

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dc.contributor.authorWaine, Hannahen
dc.contributor.authorBates, Sallyen
dc.contributor.authorFrizelle, Paulineen
dc.contributor.authorOh, Thomasina M.en
dc.contributor.funderNational Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaboration South West Peninsula
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-27T15:27:43Z
dc.date.available2023-04-27T15:59:06Zen
dc.date.available2023-04-27T15:27:43Z
dc.date.issued2023-04en
dc.date.updated2023-04-27T14:59:09Z
dc.description.abstractBackground: In 2016/17, the CATALISE Consortium published the results of a multinational and multidisciplinary Delphi consensus study, representing agreement among professionals about the definition and process of identification of children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) (Bishop et al., 2016, 2017). The extent to which the current clinical practice of UK speech and language therapists (SLTs) reflects the CATALISE consensus statements is unknown. Aims: To investigate how UK SLTs’ expressive language assessment practices reflect the CATALISE documents’ emphasis on the functional impairment and impact caused by DLD, by examining: whether multiple sources of assessment information are gathered; how standardised and non-standardised sources are combined in clinical decision-making, and how clinical observation and language sample analysis are utilised. Methods and Procedures: An anonymous, online survey was carried out between August 2019 and January 2020. It was open to UK-based paediatric SLTs who assess children up to age 12 with unexplained difficulties using language. Questions probed different aspects of expressive language assessment which are referred to in the CATALISE consensus statements and supplementary comments, and asked about participants’ familiarity with the CATALISE statements. Responses were analysed using simple descriptive statistics and content analysis. Outcomes and Results: The questionnaire was completed by 104 participants, from all four regions of the United Kingdom, working in a range of clinical settings with different levels of professional experience of DLD. The findings indicate that clinical assessment practices broadly align with the CATALISE statements. Although clinicians carry out standardised assessments more frequently than other types of assessment, they also gather information from other sources and use this alongside standardised test scores to inform clinical decisions. Clinical observation and language sample analysis are commonly utilised to evaluate functional impairment and impact, along with parent/carer/teacher and child report. However, asking about the child's own perspective could be more widely utilised. The findings also highlight a lack of familiarity with the details of the CATALISE documents among two thirds of the participants. Conclusions and Implications: Assessment practices broadly align with the CATALISE statements, but there is a need for greater clarity regarding terminology and the assessment of functional language impairment and impact. This research should prompt discussion in the profession about how to further develop and adopt expressive language assessment practices which reflect the CATALISE consensus and support effective assessment.en
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Institute for Health Research Applied Research Collaboration South West Peninsula
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Version
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dc.identifier.citationWaine, H., Bates, S., Frizelle, P. and Oh, T. M. (2023) 'UK speech and language therapists’ assessment of children's expressive language, and functional impairment and impact, following the CATALISE publications', International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders', (18 pp), https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12883
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1460-6984.12883en
dc.identifier.endpage18
dc.identifier.issn1460-6984
dc.identifier.journaltitleInternational Journal of Language & Communication Disorders
dc.identifier.startpage1
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/14410
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherWiley
dc.rights© 2023 The Authors. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectAssessment
dc.subjectCATALISE
dc.subjectExpressive
dc.subjectFunctional
dc.subjectLanguage
dc.subjectSurvey
dc.titleUK speech and language therapists’ assessment of children's expressive language, and functional impairment and impact, following the CATALISE publicationsen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
dc.typeArticleen
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