Screening accuracy and developmental language disorder remain stable between 2.5 and 3 years.

Aim: This study re-evaluated the classification accuracy of language screening. This is because the new Swedish child health programme moved this screening from 3 to 2.5 years of age.

Identifying language disorder in bilingual children aged 2.5 years requires screening in both languages.

Aim: Bilingual children are at risk of being overlooked for early identification of language difficulties. We investigated the accuracy of four screening models for children aged 2.5.

Modifying a language screening tool for three-year-old children identified severe language disorders six months earlier.

Aim: We examined if routine Swedish language screening for developmental language disorder (DLD) carried out at three years of age could be performed as effectively six months earlier.

Methods: This study observed 105 monolingual Swedish-speaking children (53% boys) aged 29-31 months at three Swedish child health centres. We compared their ability to combine three words, as per the existing protocol, and two words.

Child healthcare nurses believe that bilingual children show slower language development, simplify screening procedures and delay referrals.

Aim: A significant number of children living in Sweden are bilingual, but how language screening is performed in this group is unknown. We investigated child healthcare nurses' perceptions of the language screening of bilingual children aged 30-36 months, together with their clinical practices.

Methods: An online questionnaire was completed by 863 nurses who performed language screening of bilingual children in Sweden at least once a month, corresponding to 89% of the target population.