This developmental assessment battery provided five scales of cognitive and behavioral ability (gross motor, fine motor, expressive language, receptive language, and visual reception) from which we could interrogate the inherent relationship between structural and functional development.
From this standardized battery age equivalent scores, defined to be the age at which the child's raw score is the median score can be computed for five separate scales (gross motor, fine motor, expressive language, receptive language, and visual reception).
Language disorders are identified when a person has difficulty with expressive language, receptive language, or pragmatic language.
For the purpose of this study, the children completed subtests that provided a measure of their skills for Core Language, Receptive Language, and Expressive Language.
The original Parent Global Impression (PGI) [ 14] was a simple list of 8 symptoms, including Expressive Language, Receptive Language, General Behavior, Gastrointestinal Symptoms, Sleep, Sociability, Eye Contact, and Overall.
At 4 1/2 to 6 years of age, concerns reported by parents in the global/cognitive, expressive language, receptive language, fine motor, gross motor, school, and other areas are predictive of developmental disabilities [ 35, 36].
This assessment included fine motor, gross motor, visual reception, receptive language, and expressive language scales.
Significant improvement was also found in children's performance on the Visual Reception, Receptive Language and Expressive Language scales of the MSEL, as assessed by standardised DQs.
The MSEL consists of five subscales: gross motor, fine motor, visual reception, expressive language, and receptive language.
MSEL consists of four subscales that measure fine motor, visual reception, expressive language, and receptive language and was administrated to children by trained clinicians [ 21].
Established standardized tests were used to assess two aspects of language skills: receptive vocabulary and comprehension of sentences.
