Journal of Pediatric Psychology 12(4) pp. 581-594, 1987
© 1987 Society of Pediatric Psychology
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Relationship of Middle Ear Disease in Early Childhood to Later Narrative and Attention Skills1
Pennsylvania State University, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center, University of North Carolina
2All correspondence should be sent to Lynne Feagans, Department of Individual and Family Studies, S-110A Henderson Human Development, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
The present study examined narrative skills and attention in a prospective study of 44 children whose histories of otitis media experience varied over the first 3 years of life. A regression model was designed to examine whether narrative skills at 5 and 7 years of age could be predicted from a number of potent predictors, including mother's IQ, mother's education, the home environment, the WPPSI IQ at 5 years, and the frequency and duration of otitis media in the first 36 months of life. Using a backward elimination procedure, the model did not predict global language measures such as mean length of utterance (MLU), but it did predict narrative skill at 5 and 7 years of age, with the final model including the WPPSI and otitis media as significant predictors. Post hoc analyses indicated a possible threshold effect as well as more off-task behavior during kindergarten work times for those children with a high frequency of past olitis media.
Key words: otitis media; attention; language development.
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