Descripción del proyecto
Aprendizaje sobre intervenciones preventivas para el trastorno del desarrollo del lenguaje
Millones de niños en Europa tardan en comenzar a hablar y son diagnosticados con un trastorno del desarrollo del lenguaje (TDL o DLD en sus siglas inglesas). Estos niños se enfrentan a dificultades graves y persistentes para comprender o utilizar el lenguaje. Por desgracia, no se sabe mucho sobre las posibles intervenciones preventivas. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos DLD-PI investigará el riesgo mutable y menos mutable, así como los factores de protección. Creará una colaboración pluridisciplinaria, intersectorial e internacional con las universidades de Turku y Oulu, el Instituto Finlandés de Salud y Bienestar, el Hospital Universitario de Helsinki y la Universidad de Newclastle en el Reino Unido. La fase piloto ya ha comenzado con las cohortes de nacimientos en Finlandia entre 1987 y 1997. Los hallazgos serán validados en una cohorte genérica de acceso abierto con una cifra sin precedentes de variables de distintos registros, incluido un volumen previsto de aproximadamente 150 000 niños con TDL de una muestra de aproximadamente dos millones de niños.
Objetivo
Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a public health concern affecting millions of children across Europe. Still, the basis for efficacious preventative interventions for it are largely unknown. To fill this gap, we must: 1) investigate mutable and least-mutable risk and protective factors for DLD, 2) develop prediction tools based on them, and 3) investigate risk and protective factors that are associated with the severity of outcomes of DLD. DLD prevention and intervention (DLD-PI) aims to tackle these questions by using high-quality, large-scale registry data available in Finland. The research will be conducted through multidisciplinary, inter-sectoral, and international collaboration with the universities of Turku and Oulu, the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki University Hospital, and Newcastle University, UK. Piloting has already begun with the 1987 and 1997 Finnish Birth Cohorts. These findings will be validated in a new open-access generic cohort with an unprecedented number of variables from different registers, including an expected 150,000 children with DLD out of almost 2 million children. The results of DLD-PI will have wide impact because they enable better prediction of individual trajectories of DLD. With the ultimate aim of providing a tool to use in predicting DLD, this knowledge will enable more efficient targeting and timing of preventative interventions. The results will be essential, generalizable, and advance the field of research for other developmental and learning difficulties as well. They will also be disseminated and communicated accordingly. DLD-PI adds significantly to both research in the European Research Area and the priorities of Horizon 2020. The fellow already has extensive experience in DLD research and its methodology, and the two-way knowledge transfer will prepare her to conduct and lead future epidemiological studies in a field critically lacking specialists.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
70211 KUOPIO
Finlandia