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    Retraso del lenguaje en niños de escuelas fiscales, sector Yanuncay, nacidos durante la pandemia SARS-CoV- 2. Cuenca 2024 - 2025
    (Universidad de Cuenca, 2025-03-10) Llivisaca Mejia, Liliana Elizabeth; Pulla Palacios, Luis David; Quito Vidal, María Paz
    Background: the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and containment measures affected social interaction, which increased risk factors like lack of stimulation and exposed children to challenges in language acquisition. Language delay is one of the most common disorders in childhood, and there is little research on children born during the pandemic. Goals: to determine the frequency of language delay in children from public schools in the area of Yanuncay, born during the 2024-2025 pandemic, and associated risk factors. Methods: quantitative cross-sectional study featuring 105 first-grade children from Ciudad de Cuenca, Fray Vicente Solano and Otto Arosemena Gómez schools in the area of Yanuncay in the 2024-2025 school year. A survey and the Preschool Language Test (PLS-5) were applied. Results: language delay affected 62.9% of the participants: mild language delay was the most common (43.8) in the 5 to 5 years and 6 months’ age group (30.5%), males (22.9%) from urban areas (31.4%), with stimulation less than once a week (23.8%) and less than one hour of screen time per day (25.7%), with parents employed in the private sector (16.2%), middle class (23.8%), and medium isolation levels during the pandemic (22.9%). Conclusion: data shows a significant correlation between the occurrence of language delay and factors like male sex, residence, parents’ occupation, economic level, isolation during the pandemic, exposure to screens, and stimulation.