Factores de protección y factores de riesgo familiares, asociados al desarrollo del lenguaje de niños del Ecuador: estudio aplicado a familias con niños de 18 meses de edad

Abstract

This document is oriented to establish which family factors generate an impact on children's language development. We chose 150 families with children from 17 to 19 months of age raised in Guayaquil, El Carmen, Quito and Cuenca; the same ones that were applied assessment and surveys according to the family factors chosen: Level of education, income, members by families, level of emotional and verbal response of the mother to the child, level of maternal depression and level of language development for children between 17 and 19 months. Subsequently, the data was collected and processed in SPSS. The results concluded that not all factors are closely related to language development, being the most relevant: level of education of the mother, the level of maternal depression and the number of adults in families.