Music skills of Spanish-speaking children with developmental language disorder. Data set.

Data used for analyses in Martínez-Castilla et al. (2023). The dataset contains assessments of rhythm discrimination, melody discrimination, music memory, and language abilities for children with Developmental Language Disorder and typically developing peers. The research found children with DLD exhibited significantly lower performance on all three music subtests.

Use Cases

• Comparing music skill profiles between children with DLD and typically developing peers based on the described subtests.
• Investigating correlations between music and language abilities within and across the two participant groups.
• Training models to identify potential markers of DLD using combined music and language assessment data.

Strengths

• Data is directly linked to a peer-reviewed publication in Research in Developmental Disabilities (2023).
• Includes assessments for three distinct music skills (rhythm discrimination, melody discrimination, music memory) and several language abilities.
• Contains matched groups of children with DLD and typically developing peers for controlled comparison.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified; last metadata update was 2025-11-23.

Provenance

Source

Martínez-Castilla, P., Calet, N., & Jiménez-Fernández, G. (2023).

Collection Method

Assessments of children's music and language skills in a research study.

Time Range

Study published in 2023; data collection period not specified.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-11-23 05:10:08

Geography

Spanish-speaking children; specific country not specified.