DEVELOPMENT, CONTENT AND FACE VALIDATION OF PARENT-RATED SCREENING TOOL FOR SPEECH AND LANGUAGE DELAY
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parent-rated, speech, language delay, children, MalayAbstract
Speech and language delays have a negative impact on children's development in terms of psychological, social, and academic. Early screening and intervention significantly help to improve children’s future and well-being. Thus, we aim to develop and validate a new parent-rated screening tool for speech and language delay for children 18-24 months in the Malay language. Our study design is a development and validation study. Our screening tool was developed in two stages, the development stage and the judgment and quantification stage. All domains and indicators were identified in the development stage via literature review, expert interviews, and focus group discussion to produce an initial instrument questionnaire. In the judgment and quantification stage, a validation test was conducted using content validation by a matter expert and face validation by a targeted group of layperson. A content validation index and face validation index were calculated in the quantification stage. Our finalized screening tool consists of 4 major domains and a total of 19 questions. The domains consist of pre-verbal, receptive, expressive, and vocabulary domains. The results showed that the questionnaire has a satisfactory content validation index and face validation index.
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