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CAZDEN, COURTNEY B. – 1966
THE WAYS LANGUAGE IS USED BY CHILDREN IN VARIOUS SUBCULTURE GROUPS WERE INVESTIGATED, AND AN EVALUATION WAS MADE OF WHETHER OR NOT THE LANGUAGE OF ANY GROUP CAN BE CONSIDERED DEFICIENT BY USE OF SOME CRITERIA. THE AUTHOR EVALUATED RESEARCH IN LINGUISTICS, DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIOLOGY, AND ANTHROPOLOGY DONE WITH CHILDREN OF DIFFERENT SOCIAL…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Dialects, Disadvantaged, Language
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Friend, Tressa J.; Channell, Ron W. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1987
Comparison of the Picture Vocabulary subtest of the Test of Language Development--Primary (TOLD-P-PV) and the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test--Revised (PPVT-R) with first- through third-graders (N=48) revealed a strong correlation between the two receptive vocabulary measures. (CB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Diagnostic Tests, Language Handicaps, Language Skills
Bryson, Juanita; Stern, Carolyn – 1969
Sixteen Mexican-American 4-year-olds, classified as culturally disadvantaged, were administered a special program in an attempt to teach them the concept of adjectival comparatives in a short time. The children were divided into two treatment groups. One, the inductive or "discovery" group, was shown a picture of an object (for example,…
Descriptors: Adjectives, Concept Teaching, Deduction, Disadvantaged
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Clinkert, Robert J. – Illinois School Research and Development, 1978
Normal and learning disabled (LD) first graders were given a battery of language and perceptual-motor-memory (PMM) tests. Results indicated that: LD children generally are less proficient in vocabulary and language tasks; and language tests are better indicators of learning disabilities than PMM tests. (SJL)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Language Ability, Language Handicaps
Vance, Booney, – Diagnostique, 1987
The study investigated the concurrent validity of the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised and Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test with the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence for 15 language delayed and 36 non-language delayed children (ages 45 to 76 months). (DB)
Descriptors: Intelligence Tests, Language Handicaps, Language Tests, Preschool Education
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McLoughlin, Caven S.; Gullo, Dominic F. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1984
Three standardized language assessment measures (Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised, Test of Early Language Development, and the Preschool Language Scale) were individually administered to 25 nonreferred, White, middle-class preschoolers. Correlations among the three measures were statistically significant suggesting an interrelationship of…
Descriptors: Disability Identification, Language Handicaps, Language Tests, Preschool Education
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Spellacy, Frank; Black, F. William – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1972
An average of the two scores on the LIPS and PPVT provides an estimate of current IQ comparable to that which might be obtained by a WISC or S-B. (Authors/MB)
Descriptors: Aphasia, Comparative Analysis, Intelligence Tests, Language Handicaps
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Washington, Julie A.; Craig, Holly K. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1992
This study of 105 low-income, urban, African-American preschool and kindergarten children found that the performance of most of the children on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised was more than one standard deviation below the mean. Findings indicated that the test was not appropriate for use with this population. (Author/JDD)
Descriptors: Black Students, Diagnostic Tests, Kindergarten Children, Language Handicaps
Gordon, Edmund W., Ed. – 1966
This IRCD Bulletin issue contains two brief papers. One, on contingency management, describes the application of this aspect of operant conditioning theory to the manipulation of behavior through reinforcement methods. Examples of the technique of managing high and low probability behaviors are offered as it is used with preschool children,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, American Indians, Behavior Change, Behavior Theories