Today I visited University College Cork, and spoke with colleagues in the speech therapy department who are using the Growing Up in Ireland longitudinal study data to consider prevalence of speech and language impairment in 9-year-old children in Ireland. They have been using papers that we have published from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) study in Australia to compare with their data. It was interesting to discuss the similarities and differences between the two studies and the two sets of results. A number of questions asked in the LSAC study about speech and language have also been used in the Growing Up in Ireland study. However, while LSAC began data collection with two waves at 0 and 4 years, Growing Up in Ireland began data collection with two waves at 9 months and 9 years.
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| Dr Ciara O'Toole, Zoe Rooke, Prof Fiona Gibbon - University College Cork |
