Cristina Mei|Sheena Reilly|Dinah Reddihough|Fiona Mensah|Lindsay Pennington|Angela Morgan
Language outcomes of children with cerebral palsy aged 5 years and 6 years: a population?based study
Murdoch Children's Research Institute|University of Melbourne|Murdoch Children's Research Institute|Menzies School of Health Research|Murdoch Children's Research Institute|University of Melbourne|Murdoch Children's Research Institute|University of Melbourne|Newcastle University|Murdoch Children's Research Institute|University of Melbourne
examine frequency range features language impairment community sample children cerebral palsy cp aged 5 6 yearschildren cp born 2005 2007 identified victorian cerebral palsy register eightyfour participants recruited representing 48 contacted families recruited sample representative nonparticipants participants completed standardized measures receptive expressive language nonverbal cognitionlanguage impairment identified 61 5184 participants twentyfour per cent 2084 nonverbal cooccurring receptive expressive language impairment common 3784 44 isolated receptive 684 7 expressive 484 5 impairments occurred relatively infrequently group level verbal nonverbal participants demonstrated deficits across language subdomains ie semantics syntax morphology rather single domains cognitive impairment gross motor function classification system levels iv v associated higher rates language impairment odds ratio 152 95 confidence interval ci 32718 85 95 ci 18403 respectively cognition independently associated language impairment factors considered within multivariable modellanguage impairment common 5yearold 6yearold children cp affecting three five children participants impaired across linguistic subdomains indicating generalized language deficit findings suggest children would benefit clinical language assessment target services effectively subgroups individuals cp greatest risk language impairment need identified