Objectives: to evaluate the agreement of the results in two screening tests on children´s development - Denver II and Early Language Milestone Scale (ELM) aged two to three years old, born prematurely and with low weight. Methods: two screening instruments: Denver II and ELM were applied for the development in an observational cross-sectional descriptive study. The agreement between Denver II Test and its language sector and ELM were assessed by Kappa coefficient. Results: 77 children evaluated, 36.3% had an overall loss of the development performed by Denver II and 32.5% loss of the language by ELM. The agreement between the results of Denver II test considering all sectors versus ELM showed Kappa coefficient of 0.856 (p<0.001) and considering only the language sector of Denver II versus ELM, the Kappa coefficient was 0.886 (p<0.001). Conclusions: the developmental impairment observed in the children studied by assessing Denver II and through its language sector showed agreement with changes in the language abilities observed in ELM.
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de Mello, P. R. B., Caldas, C. de S. O., de Souza, S. C., & De Silva, A. M. C. (2016). Concordância entre dois testes de triagem na avaliação da linguagem em crianças nascidas prematuras e de baixo peso. Revista Brasileira de Saude Materno Infantil, 16(3), 295–302. https://doi.org/10.1590/1806-93042016000300005
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