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Does "Thrive by Three", a Quality-Building Intervention in Childcare Centres, Strengthen Children's Language Skills?
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Ratib Lekhal; May-Britt Drugli; Lisa Karlsen; Stian Lydersen; Elisabet Solheim Buøen – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2024
This study examined the effectiveness of the "Thrive by Three" intervention for 1- to 3-year-old's language development. Data from 78 childcare centres, 187 toddler classrooms, and 1561 children (91.4% native Norwegian) were included. Results revealed that children in the intervention group had slightly steeper language development than…
Descriptors: Intervention, Child Care Centers, Language Skills, Language Acquisition
"Ratunku!" or Just "Tunku!" Evidence for the Reliability and Concurrent Validity of the Language Use Inventory--Polish
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Bialecka-Pikul, Marta; Filip, Anna; Stepien-Nycz, Malgorzata; Kus, Katarzyna; O'Neill, Daniela K. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: To date, there is no tool for assessing early pragmatic development of Polish-speaking children. This study aimed to adapt to Polish a standardized parent report measure, the Language Use Inventory (LUI; O'Neill, 2009, in order to enable cross-cultural comparisons and to use the LUI-Polish to screen for pragmatic development in children…
Descriptors: Polish, Pragmatics, Measures (Individuals), Parent Attitudes
Febrile Seizures and Behavioural and Cognitive Outcomes in Preschool Children: The Generation R Study
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Visser, Annemarie M.; Jaddoe, Vincent W. V.; Ghassabian, Akhgar; Schenk, Jacqueline J.; Verhulst, Frank C.; Hofman, Albert; Tiemeier, Henning; Moll, Henriette A.; Arts, Willem Frans M. – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2012
Aim: General developmental outcome is known to be good in school-aged children who experienced febrile seizures. We examined cognitive and behavioural outcomes in preschool children with febrile seizures, including language and executive functioning outcomes. Method: This work was performed in the Generation R Study, a population-based cohort…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition
Use of the Language Development Survey (LDS) in a National Probability Sample of Children 18 to 35 Months Old.
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Rescorla, Leslie; Achenbach, Thomas M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2002
Data from 278 children (ages 18-35 months) were used to norm the Language Development Survey (LDS) and the Child Behavioral Checklist. Vocabulary scores increased markedly with age, were higher in girls, and were modestly correlated with socioeconomic level. Correlations between LDS scores and checklist problem scores were low. (Contains…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Problems, Child Development, Etiology