Background: Children's basic language skills develop during the preschool age (2-6 years) and are at this time in a positive progress of language development. If children with language difficulties are detected and gets the right support during this period of time it improves the conditions for the child’s language development. It is the Child health care nurse’s responsibility to identify children with deviant language development.
Aim: The aim of the study was to describe Child health care nurses´ experience of working with children´s language development in Child health centre.
Method: An inductive approach was chosen where data was analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Eight interviews were conducted with Child health care nurses.
Results: Three categories emerged from the analysis; detects children with deviant language development, collaborates with parents and use evidence-based screening instrument with six subcategories included.
Conclusion: It emerges from the study that Child health care nurses´ experience a major responsibility to detecting children with deviant language development. This is because children with language difficulties get better prerequisites if insertion starts at early age. Child health care nurses perceive lack of understanding from parents regarding the child´s language development and the importance of language for the child.