[Evaluation of the efficiency of ERTL4/6 screening tests for language disorders for children with a 22q11 deletion].
OBJECTIVE
ERTL (Epreuves de Repérage de Troubles de Langage) tests have been designed as a screening test to detect rapidly language disorders. To evaluate the effectiveness of these tests, we have compared them to the form P (NEEL-P) tests for the examination of language in 6 children with a 22q11 microdeletion.


METHODS
6 children aged from 4 years and 4 months to 5 years and 4 months, 4 boys and 2 girls have been tested. These tests have been performed in two sessions lasting between 1 and 1 1/2 hour.


RESULTS
They are consistent in both tests. ERTL has identified all the children with a disorder.


CONCLUSIONS
These fast tests should be used more often to detect children requiring additional and more complex language and neuropsychological evaluations.
Deggouj
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Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Service d'Oto-Rhino-Laryngologie, avenue Hippocrate 10, 1200 Bruxelles, Belgique. Naima.Deggouj@uclouvain.be
Estienne
F
F
Derue
L
L
Vanderlinden
F
F
Ovaert
C
C
Sluysmans
Th
T
Gersdorff
M
M
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004062:DiGeorge Syndrome / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000592:standards; D017384:Sequence Deletion