Pilot Study - Cross-Cultural Interviews of parents of children with LD
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Pilot study- Cross-cultural exploration of how parents construe language disorder and their experiences of accessing services.
IRAS ID
250519
Contact name
Sam Harding
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
North Bristol Hospital NHS Trust
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 7 months, 0 days
Research summary
This pilot project has come from a European networking programme entitled COST Action 1406 ‘Enhancing children's oral language skills across Europe and beyond - a collaboration focusing on interventions for children with difficulties learning their first language’. The Bristol Speech and Language Therapy Research Unit (BSLTRU) is part of Working Group 3 of this COST Action, which is comprised of representatives from a number of European countries, and this group specifically focuses on the social and cultural context of intervention for children with language disorders. Together with my colleagues, we designed a cross-cultural interview study which we will conduct with view to designing a larger study. This pilot study has five aims:
1. To explore ways in which parents construe language disorder across identified countries.
2. To explore the impact of having a child with a language disorder on the family.
3. To investigate parental experiences about how they accessed services for their children.
4. To explore the feasibility cross-cultural qualitative research.
5. To explore commonalities and differences in parental perspectives across selected countries.
Governments differ in how health services for children are allocated, and also societies, parents and cultures differ in how they view the early education and social development of children and who holds the main responsibility of supporting these abilities.
Understanding parental experiences across countries is important because it provides information on family experiences of everyday life and ways that having a child with DLD may influence family dynamics (De Pape & Lindsay, 2015).
The parents we would will talk to have:
• Children aged 6-12 years who are monolingual and presenting with developmental language disorder (DLD) as identified by a gatekeeper where the language disorder is the primary presenting difficulty.
• In receipt of services for the child’s language disorder for at least 3 months.REC name
London - Bloomsbury Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
18/LO/1339
Date of REC Opinion
10 Aug 2018
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion