Development of the Assessment Scale of Communication Skills to support preschool children with special educational needs

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23531307
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Special needs education
• Research Institution: Teikyo Heisei University
• Principal Investigator: SETO Junko 帝京平成大学, 健康メディカル学部, 教授 (70438985)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): HATANO Etsuko 白百合女子大学, 文学部, 教授 (50114921)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: コミュニケーション能力 / 幼児期 / ナラティブスキル / 評価指標の作成 / 発達アセスメント / 特別支援

Outline of Final Research Achievements

A scale was developed for assessing communication skills in preschool children, and its validity for assessing these skills was investigated. Firstly, the Communication Assessment Scale was developed to screen and identify communication problems of preschool children, comprising of 42-items that evaluated six aspects of communication. Secondly, a test comprised of seven tasks for assessing conversational and narrative skills were developed, and children with typical development (N = 83, Age range 4-6 years of age) responded to the tasks. Then, developmental changes and developmental parameters of children were investigated by using the scale. Results suggested that this scale was effective for assessing communication skills of preschool children.

Free Research Field

臨床発達心理学・言語コミュニケーション障害