Receptive Language Development in Early Childhood: A Comparative Study between Children Born Preterm and Full Term
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This comparative descriptive study explored receptive language development in children born preterm and full-term in early childhood. The sample included 96 childrenaged 1 year 6 monthsto 3 years 11months who attended the Pediatric Outpatient Department for check-ups between May 2020 and March 2021. Children who met the eligibility criteria were tested for receptive language understanding using the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test Form A (Fourth Edition). The data were analyzed using an independent t-test and Mann-Whitney U test. The study revealed that most of the childrenaged 1 year 6 months to 2 years 5 months, bothbornpreterm (91.70%) and full-term (54.20%), had a low level of receptive language scores. When comparing between the groups, it was found that the mean rank of the receptive language scores of the full-term children was significantly better than that of the preterm-born children.However, most of the children aged from 2 years 6 months to 3 years 11 months,born preterm(54.20%) and full-term (58.30%), had a high level of receptive language scores. Their mean scores were not statistically different between the two groups. The findings suggested the monitoring, follow-up,and evaluation of language development in preterm-born children and a training project on the knowledge/information of language development be used to stimulate the language development in children, mainly aged 1 year 6 months to 2 years 5 months to achieve the proper language development.
Keywords: Early childhood, Language development, Preterm infants, Receptive language development
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