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Rescorla, Leslie; Nyame, Josephine; Dias, Pedro – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016
Purpose: Our objective was to replicate previous cross­linguistic findings by comparing Portuguese and U.S. children with respect to (a) effects of language, gender, and age on vocabulary size; (b) lexical composition; and (c) late talking. Method: We used the Language Development Survey (LDS; Rescorla, 1989) with children (18-35 months) learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development, Portuguese, Language Acquisition
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Armstrong, Rebecca; Whitehouse, Andrew J. O.; Scott, James G.; Copland, David A.; McMahon, Katie L.; Fleming, Sophie; Arnott, Wendy – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2017
The current study examined the relationship between early language ability and autistic-like traits in adulthood, utilising data from 644 participants from a longitudinal study of the general population. Language performance at 2 years was measured with the Language Development Survey (LDS), and at 20 years the participants completed the…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Longitudinal Studies, Children