Dynamic Assessment of the Risk for Language and Reading Disorders in Monolingual and Multilingual Children
Validation of Computerized Dynamic Assessment Tasks to Identify the Risk of Developmental Language Disorders (DLD) and Specific Reading Disorder (SRD) in Monolingual and Multilingual Children
IRCCS Eugenio Medea
150 participants
Apr 3, 2023
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
The project represents the completion of a part of the recently concluded European project MultiMind, in which a computer platform called MuLiMi was developed and validated. The platform hosts screening tests for the identification of the risk of Language and Learning Disorders in preschool and primary school children, respectively. The aim is to validate the Dynamic Assessment (DA) tests (a first test assessing the capacity to learn new words for preschool children and a second one assessing the capacity to learn a new spelling code for school-age children) in a population of monolingual and bilingual children attending preschool and primary school. The main goal of the study is to complete the validation of the two Dynamic Assessment tests implemented in the MuLiMi platform developed for the MultiMind project.
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria4
- age 4-6 years (Kindergarten) or 7-9 years (Primary school);
- Attendance at an Italian-language school in Italy or Switzerland/Germany.
- (i) At least one parent speaks at least one language other than Italian in the family;
- (ii) Continuous exposure to the Italian language for at least two years.
Exclusion Criteria1
- Intellectual disability, major psychopathological disorders, exposure to Italian language for less than two years.
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Interventions
The DA tests (with a duration of about 30 minutes) can be administered by accessing the digital platform MuLiMi, individually with the experimenter or examiner. The tests are in game form and require children to learn the names of characters presented in the context of stories (preschool version) or to learn new codes for reading and writing (primary school version). In both cases, the new materials (names or codes) are repeatedly presented to the child until (s)he reaches an accuracy threshold. The number of repetitions needed to reach the threshold constitutes the main measure of the child's learning capacity, together with the number of errors committed during the various cycles.
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NCT06937255