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Dynamic Assessment of Word Learning as a Predictor of Response to Vocabulary Intervention
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Elizabeth Spencer Kelley; Lindsey Peters-Sanders; Houston Sanders; Keri Madsen; Yagmur Seven; Howard Goldstein – Grantee Submission, 2025
Introduction: The current study examined the extent to which static and dynamic measures of vocabulary and word learning predicted response and identified poor responders to a vocabulary intervention. Methods: Participants were 46 preschool children in classrooms randomly assigned to complete the Story Friends intervention in two…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Predictor Variables
Incidental Learning and Social-Communicative Abilities in Children with Developmental Language Disorder: Further Evaluating the Implicit Learning Deficit Hypothesis
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Joseph H. R. Maes; Annette R. Scheper; Daan Hermans; Constance T. W. M. Vissers – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: The implicit learning deficit hypothesis claims that impaired implicit learning underlies deficits in social-communicative abilities associated with developmental language disorder (DLD). However, previous research testing this hypothesis revealed inconsistent results and largely used process-impure sequential learning tasks. Aims:…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities, Preadolescents, Early Adolescents
Just Ask Me Again: An Analysis of Receptive Vocabulary Performance of Children from Low-Income Environments
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Mason, Rihana S.; Bass, Lori A. – Early Education and Development, 2020
Research Findings Research suggests children from low-income environments have vocabularies that differ from those of their higher-income peers. They may have basic knowledge of many words of which children from higher income environments have acquired sub- or supra-ordinate knowledge. This study sought to determine if children from low-income…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Disadvantaged Environment, Vocabulary Development, Standardized Tests
Identifying Preschool Children for Higher Tiers of Language and Early Literacy Instruction within a Response to Intervention Framework
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Carta, Judith J.; Greenwood, Charles R.; Atwater, Jane; McConnell, Scott R.; Goldstein, Howard; Kaminski, Ruth A. – Journal of Early Intervention, 2014
Response to Intervention (RTI) or Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) is beginning to be implemented in preschool programs to improve outcomes and to reduce the need for special education services. The proportions of children in programs identified as struggling learners through universal screening have important implications for the…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Preschool Children, Screening Tests, Emergent Literacy
An Evaluation of a Treatment Package Consisting of Discrimination Training and Differential Reinforcement with Response Cost and a Social Story on Vocal Stereotypy for a Preschooler with Autism in a Preschool Classroom
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Laprime, Amanda P.; Dittrich, Gretchen A. – Education and Treatment of Children, 2014
The purpose of the study was to evaluate the use of a treatment package comprised of a social story, discrimination training, and differential reinforcement with response cost on the vocal stereotypy of one preschooler diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder. The study took place in a preschool classroom of a public school and was implemented…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Program Effectiveness, Story Telling, Reinforcement
Effects of Automated Tier 2 Storybook Intervention on Vocabulary and Comprehension Learning in Preschool Children with Limited Oral Language Skills
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Kelley, Elizabeth Spencer; Goldstein, Howard; Spencer, Trina D.; Sherman, Amber – Grantee Submission, 2015
This early efficacy study examined the effects of an automated storybook intervention designed to promote school readiness among at-risk prekindergarten children. Story Friends is a small-group intervention in which vocabulary and question-answering lessons are embedded in a series of storybooks.A randomized group design with an embedded…
Descriptors: Intervention, Vocabulary Development, Reading Comprehension, At Risk Students