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Lindsay Pennington; Lily Potts; Janice Murray; Johanna Geytenbeek; Kate Laws; Jenefer Sargent; Michael Clarke; John Swettenham; Julie Lachkovic; Catherine Martin; Elaine McColl – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: Current UK measures of early spoken language comprehension require manipulation of toys and/or verbal responses and are not accessible to children with severe motor impairments. The Computer-Based Instrument for Low motor Language Testing (C-BiLLT) (originally validated in Dutch) is a computerized test of spoken language comprehension…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Motor Development, Psychomotor Skills
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Stagnitti, Karen; Bailey, Alison; Hudspeth Stevenson, Edwina; Reynolds, Emily; Kidd, Evan – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2016
The current study investigated the influence of a play-based curriculum on the development of pretend play skills and oral language in children attending their first year of formal schooling. In this quasi-experimental design, two groups of children were followed longitudinally across the first 6 months of their first year at school. The children…
Descriptors: Investigations, Play, Oral Language, Foreign Countries