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Casla, Marta; Méndez-Cabezas, Celia; Montero, Ignacio; Murillo, Eva; Nieva, Silvia; Rodríguez, Jessica – Journal of Child Language, 2022
The role of children's verbal repetition of parents' utterances on vocabulary growth has been well documented (Masur, 1999). Nevertheless, few studies have analyzed adults' and children's spontaneous verbal repetition around the second birthday distinguishing between the types of repetition. We analyzed longitudinally Spanish-speaking parent-child…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Repetition, Parents, Vocabulary Development
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DeVeney, Shari L.; Kyvelidou, Anastasia; Mather, Paris – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2021
Background and Aims: The purpose of this exploratory study was to expand existing literature on prelinguistic vocalizations by reporting results of the first home-based longitudinal study examining a wide variety of behaviors and characteristics, including early vocalizations, across infants at low and elevated risk of autism spectrum disorder…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Infants, Child Development, At Risk Persons
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Parikh, Chandni; Mastergeorge, Ann M. – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2018
Children with Down syndrome (DS) are at higher risk for both delayed expressive language and poor speech intelligibility. The current study utilized the quantitative automated language environment analysis (LENA) to depict mother and child vocalizations and conversational patterns in the home of 43 children with DS, chronologically aged 24-64…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Young Children, Mothers, Interpersonal Communication