title: [Evaluation of the efficiency of ERTL4/6 screening tests for language disorders for children with a 22q11 deletion].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Service d'Oto-Rhino-Laryngologie, avenue Hippocrate 10, 1200 Bruxelles, Belgique. Naima.Deggouj@uclouvain.be
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Deggouj
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Estienne
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Derue
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Vanderlinden
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ovaert
authors.forename: Th
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sluysmans
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gersdorff
mesh_terms: 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