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What are the active ingredients in the intervention for early communication skills in young children (0-3) with Cerebral Palsy? A scoping review.

Year: 2026
Type: study-registration
Abstract: Early communication behaviours include gestures, joint attention, vocalisations, eye contact, babble and reciprocal interactions. These behaviours emerge before first words and signal later communication development. In children with neurodevelopmental disability, these behaviours may be absent, delayed or reduced. Early assessment can support timely identification of emerging communication impairment. Although guidelines recommend parent coaching and parent-child transactional programs, the intervention literature has not been comprehensively mapped, nor have the active ingredients been described. This scoping review aims to map and describe the active ingredients of early intervention identified in the literature for children with, or at high risk of, communication impairment secondary to neurodevelopmental disability. The primary objective is to map the current state of the evidence of interventions for communicative skills in children with communication impairments. The secondary aim is to identify key topics for future research. Population, Concept, and Context (PCC)- based inclusion criteria will be used to develop a search strategy for MEDLINE/PubMed, Embase, CINAHL, PsycInfo, Scopus/Web of Science, and Ovid APA psychinfo databases. This study will follow the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews checklist (PRISMA-ScR) and use narrative synthesis. Identifying active ingredients in interventions for early communication skills in children with communication impairment will inform future intervention guidelines to be validated and assessed in children with Cerebral Palsy.
DOI: 10.17605/osf.io/vq8x3
Language: English
Subfield: Rehabilitation
Field: Medicine
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7223253247
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