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Wang, Yuanyuan; Bergeson, Tonya R.; Houston, Derek M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2017
Purpose: Both theoretical models of infant language acquisition and empirical studies posit important roles for attention to speech in early language development. However, deaf infants with cochlear implants (CIs) show reduced attention to speech as compared with their peers with normal hearing (NH; Horn, Davis, Pisoni, & Miyamoto, 2005;…
Descriptors: Infants, Attention, Speech Communication, Assistive Technology
Buzhardt, Jay; Greenwood, Charles R.; Jia, Fan; Walker, Dale; Schneider, Naomi; Larson, Anne L.; Valdovinos, Maria; McConnell, Scott R. – Exceptional Children, 2020
Data-driven decision making (DDDM) helps educators identify children not responding to intervention, individualize instruction, and monitor response to intervention in multitiered systems of support (MTSS). More prevalent in K-12 special education, MTSS practices are emerging in early childhood. In previous reports, we described the Making Online…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Decision Making, Special Education, Infants
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Buzhardt, Jay; Greenwood, Charles R.; Jia, Fan; Walker, Dale; Schneider, Naomi; Larson, Anne L.; Valdovinos, Maria; McConnell, Scott R. – Grantee Submission, 2020
Data-driven decision making (DDDM) helps educators identify children not responding to intervention, individualize instruction, and monitor response to intervention in multitiered systems of support (MTSS). More prevalent in K-12 special education, MTSS practices are emerging in early childhood. In previous reports, we described the Making Online…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Decision Making, Special Education, Infants
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Kirk, Elizabeth; Howlett, Neil; Pine, Karen J.; Fletcher, Ben C. – Child Development, 2013
Findings are presented from the first randomized control trial of the effects of encouraging symbolic gesture (or "baby sign") on infant language, following 40 infants from age 8 months to 20 months. Half of the mothers were trained to model a target set of gestures to their infants. Frequent measures were taken of infant language…
Descriptors: Infants, Sign Language, Language Acquisition, Child Language
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Terrett, Gill; White, Roxanne; Spreckley, Michele – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2013
The purpose of this study was to assess changes in children's language skills and parenting stress following participation in the Parent-Child Mother Goose Program (PCMGP). The intervention group consisted of 29 parents (age range 24 to 43 years, "M" = 33.5, SD = 4.1) and 30 children (18 females and 12 males) with ages ranging from 1 to…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Stress Variables, Child Rearing, Crisis Intervention