Family and professional congruence in communication assessments of preschool boys with fragile X syndrome

This study compared family and professional assessments of rite communicati on skills of 34 preschool males with fragile X syndrome. Parents and profes sionals rated the boys' receptive and expressive communication. Parents als o reported on the vocabulary skills of 16 of the boys, whereas professional s assessed their vocabulary diversity wing a communication sample. Moderate agreement was found between,een parents and professionals for expressive c ommunication ratings, whereas agreement for receptive communication ratings was low to moderate. Parents rated their children significantly higher tha n professionals for receptive communication but not for expressive communic ation. Parents and professionals rated children at a higher cognitive age a s having fewer difficulties with receptive and expressive communication, wh ereas older children were rated as having more problems.