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Abstract
The aim of this work was to develop a questionnaire for evaluating the role of variant environmental factors on language development in the three surrounding levels of communication (Familial level, preschool or nursery level and surrounding social environmental level) among DLD children due to environmental deprivation. This study was retrospective case control study that was carried out on 100 Egyptian children. The study control group conducted among preschool age children in the Mansoura governmental and private preschools and case group conducted among preschool age children attending outpatient clinic unit at Mansours University Hospital from October 2016 to November 2017. The studied preschool children are 53 males and 47 females with their ages ranged between 2 to less than 5 years of age and were divided into 2 groups: group I (case group) consisted 50 children with DLD due to environmental deprivation with no significant differences in chronological age, gender, mental age or IQ. group II (control group) consisted of 50 typically developed children. Multivariate analysis was done after univariate analysis depending on significant risk factors from univariate analysis and revealed that longer time of mother job and less time the mother select to talk and play with their child were the environmental deprivation factors which had the most precipitating effect on prediction of Delayed Language Development. from this point of view; the semi-structured questionnaire applied to the parents in the current study, plays an important role in evaluating the variant environmental factors on language development among DLD children due to environmental deprivation.