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measure Language Development Survey (LDS)
Study: Generation R Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Main Cohort 2.5 yearsThe Language Development Survey (LDS) assesses receptive and expressive language development. This is a 310-word vocabulary checklist, e.g., ‘Apple’ and ‘Tortoise’, with words arranged within 14 semantic categories. Parents were asked to identify the words that the child uses spontaneously.Created May 3, 2023 • Updated May 3, 2023 -
measure Speech and language development
Study: Generation R Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Main Cohort Covid questionnairesThis part of the questionnaire on the 17 year old adolescent, completed by the main caregiver is about speech and language development. The nine questions concern language and communications skills, including more detailed questions on language problems like stuttering.Created May 3, 2023 • Updated May 3, 2023 -
measure Macarthur Communicative Development Inventory (MCDI)
Study: Generation R Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Main Cohort 1.5 yearsThe MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs) are a pair of widely used parent-report instruments for assessing communicative skills in infants and toddlers. The CDIs are parent report instruments which capture important information about children's developing abilities in early language, including vocabulary comprehension, production,...Created May 3, 2023 • Updated May 3, 2023 -
measure Neuropsychological development (NEPSY-II-NL)
Study: Generation R Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Main Cohort 7 yearsNeurophysiological functioning was assessed using the NEPSY-II-NL, which is the Dutch adaptation of NEPSY-II. A total 10 tests from the NEPSY were included, namely Auditory attention and response set, Statue, Word generation, Memory for faces, Memory for faces (delayed), Narrative memory, Visuomotor precision, Arrows, Geometric puzzles, and Route finding....Created May 3, 2023 • Updated May 3, 2023 -
measure Nonword repetition task (NWR) - shortened
Study: Generation R Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Main Cohort 9-10 yearsA simplified version of the Dutch nonword repetition task (NWR; Rispens & Baker, 2012). The NWR was shortened and scoring was transformed to correct/incorrect nonwords, resulting in the shortened NWR (NWR-S).Created May 3, 2023 • Updated May 3, 2023 -
measure Demographics
Study: Generation R Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Main Cohort Early pregnancy Mid pregnancy 3 years 4 years 5-6 years 17-18 yearsThe demographics questionnaire includes items about the mother's birthdate, age, highest education, national origin, language spoken at home and living situation.Created May 3, 2023 • Updated May 3, 2023 -
measure Five-Minute Speech Sample
Study: Generation R Mode of collection: Interview Available measurements: Main Cohort Late pregnancyThe Coding of Expressed Emotion from the Five Minute Speech Sample is a method to assess the emotional climate in families. The Five Minute Speech Sample is a task in which a family member speaks about topic of their choice for five minutes while being recorded. The sample is then transcribed and coded for emotional expression using the EE coding system....Created May 3, 2023 • Updated May 3, 2023 -
measure Penn Computerized Neurocognitive Battery (Penn CNB)
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS3The Penn Computerized Neurocognitive Battery (Penn CNB) is a Dutch translation of the web-based computerized neurocognitive battery developed by the Brain Behavior Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania (https://penncnp.med.upenn.edu/). It includes a total of 17 tests, resulting in measures of performance accuracy (the percentage or number of...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Language and stuttering
Study: NTR Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YS_2 YS_5 YS_7 YS_10 YS_12 YS_DHBQP YS_DHBQ14 YS_DHBQ16 YS_DHBQ18 YC_BS2Questions about language development and stutteringCreated March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Verbal Fluency Test
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS2 YE_COG18The Verbal Fluency Test assesses how many words that belong to the same predetermined category participants can produce in a given time (usually 60 seconds). This category can be semantic, specified objects such as animals or fruits, or phonological, words beginning with a specified letter such as p.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Controlled Oral Word Association task (COWA)
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1The Controlled Oral Word Association task (COWA) is a subtest of the Multilingual Aphasia Exam that measures verbal fluency.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Rey’s Verbal Learning Test
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YC_BS2The Rey’s Auditory Verbal Learning Task (AVLT) is a task which measures short and long term verbal memory. A list of 15 unrelated, concrete nouns is presented with a 1 second interval on an audio CD over five learning trials. After each presentation, participants have to name as many of the presented words as possible. Next, after a delay interval of...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure School results and performance
Study: NTR Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YS_TRF5 YS_7 YS_TRF7 YS_10 YS_TRF10 YS_12 YS_TRF12 YS_DHBQ14 YS_DHBQ16 YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YC_DSC YE_ATTEF2 YC_ADHMRI YE_COG12 YS_TRIP4 YS_TRIP7 YS_TRIP10 YS_TRIP12Questions about school results and performance at schoolCreated March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure One Minute Reading Task
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YS_7 YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YC_BS3One subtest of the ‘one minute reading test’ was administered as a measure of technical reading performance, or oral reading fluency. It measures the accuracy and speed of decoding. Children were instructed to read out loud as many words as possible in 1 min without making errors from a card containing 120 unrelated words.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT)
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YE_COG18The California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT) is a measure of verbal learning and memory. In this task, a list of 16 items, with four words from each of four categories (fruits; herbs and spices; clothing; tools) is presented. The list is presented five times, and the participant is instructed to recall as many words as possible from the list following each...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Reading - Writing
Study: NTR Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YS_7 YS_10 YS_12 YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YE_ATTEF2 YE_COG18Questions about child's reading and writing ability, habbits, and enjoymentCreated March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Language Situation
Study: YOUth Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Baby and Child 5 months 10 monthsQuestions about which languages are spoken in the child's environment by their parents, siblings, and visitors at home, and at which ratio those languages are spoken.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated March 30, 2023 -
measure Peabody Picture Vocabulary Task (PPVT)
Study: YOUth Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Baby and Child 3 years 6 years
Child and Adolescent 9 years 12 yearsThe Peabody-Picture vocabulary task (PPVT (Dunn and Dunn, 1981); for Dutch, the PPVT-III-NL (Dunn and Dunn, 2005)) is a widely used computer task to evaluate a participant’s vocabulary size for his or her age, and serves as a proxy of general language performance. It is normed for participants up to 90 years of age. Participants see on each trial an array...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated March 30, 2023 -
measure Looking While Listening
Study: YOUth Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Eyetracking Available measurements: Baby and Child 3 yearsThis eye tracking task is a simplified version of a visual world paradigm, in which every trial presents pairs of familiar images/objects of roughly the same size (example: a chair and a bath), accompanied with a pre-recorded Dutch sentence that asks the participant to look at one of these images (e.g., where is a chair?). This paradigm - known as Looking...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated March 30, 2023 -
measure Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF) - Pragmatics
Study: YOUth Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Baby and Child 3 years 6 years
Child and Adolescent 9 years 12 yearsThe Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals (CELF) was designed to assess general language ability and specific language domains, and screen for language disorders in children and youth between 5 and 18 years. The Preschool version is meant for toddlers between 3 and 6 years old. The CELF consists of many subscales, such as Concepts and Following...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated March 30, 2023