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Andrea Rolla; Gabriela Mottesi; Mel Wylen; Yetunde Akinola – Region 15 Comprehensive Center, 2024
This brief provides policymakers and practitioners with a comprehensive overview of the purpose, characteristics, uses, and types of Kindergarten Entry Assessments (KEAs). It emphasizes the importance of high-quality KEAs in guiding instructional practices and assessing developmental progress in young learners. It highlights that high-quality KEAs…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Readiness, Student Evaluation, Child Development
Khadeejah Alaslani; Haifa Alroqi; Alaa Almohammadi; Yara Aljahlan; Roaa Alsulaiman; Aalya Albeeshi; Abdullah Murad; Fahad Alnemary – Discover Education, 2025
This study examines the landscape of childcare providers (CPs) in Saudi Arabia, focusing on their pivotal role in supporting children's language development. While fundamental, understanding CPs' knowledge of child language development, self-efficacy, and professional training remains limited in this context. This study aims to provide a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Efficacy, Faculty Development, Child Caregivers
Rebecca J. Landa; Danika Pfeiffer; Calliope Holingue; Emily Baker – Journal of Early Intervention, 2024
A majority of children's language learning experiences occur in inclusive early child care and education settings. Few evidence-based professional development (PD) programs exist to empower early childhood education providers to use language instruction practices with children in inclusive classrooms. There is little research on providers'…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Behavior Modification, Child Language, Inclusion
Sonali Poudel; Kathleen Denicola-Prechtl; Jackie A. Nelson; Mohammad Hossein Behboudi; Carlos Benitez-Barrera; Stephanie Castro; Mandy J. Maguire – Developmental Psychology, 2024
The number of U.S. children living in households with extended families has greatly increased in the last 4 decades. This demographic shift calls for a reevaluation of the impact of household size on children's development. Household density (HHD), measured as the ratio of people to bedrooms in a home, has been shown to negatively relate to…
Descriptors: Family Size, Family Environment, Child Language, Child Development
Kaveri K. Sheth; Naja Ferjan Ramírez – Language Learning and Development, 2025
Research on "parentese," the acoustically exaggerated, slower, and higher-pitched speech directed toward infants, has mostly focused on maternal contributions, although it has long been known that fathers also produce parentese. Given recent societal changes in family dynamics, it is necessary to revise these mother-centered models of…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Parent Child Relationship, Child Language, Syntax
Erin Campbell; Robyn Casillas; Elika Bergelson – Developmental Science, 2024
What is vision's role in driving early word production? To answer this, we assessed parent-report vocabulary questionnaires administered to congenitally blind children (N = 40, Mean age = 24 months [R: 7-57 months]) and compared the size and contents of their productive vocabulary to those of a large normative sample of sighted children (N =…
Descriptors: Vision, Language Acquisition, Parent Attitudes, Vocabulary Development
Lisa Pearl – Journal of Child Language, 2023
Computational cognitive modeling is a tool we can use to evaluate theories of syntactic acquisition. Here, I review several models implementing theories that integrate information from both linguistic and non-linguistic sources to learn different types of syntactic knowledge. Some of these models additionally consider the impact of factors coming…
Descriptors: Computation, Cognitive Processes, Models, Syntax
Tracey, Louise; Bowyer-Crane, Claudine; Bonetti, Sara; Nielsen, Dea; D'Apice, Katrina; Compton, Sarah – Education Endowment Foundation, 2022
This study aimed to understand the relationship between reception children's experiences of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) and their academic achievement and socio-emotional development during their first year at school in September 2020 to July 2021. This was an exploratory study combining parent and school surveys with children's…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Academic Achievement, Social Development
Feyza Çorapçi; Bengü Börkan; Burcu Bugan-Kisir; Nihal Yeniad; Hande Sart; Serra Müderrisoglu – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2024
Background: Drawing on the family stress model (Conger and Donnellan in Ann Rev Psychol 58:175-199, 2007. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.58.110405.085551), parenting programs typically support caregivers' nurturing and cognitively stimulating practices to mitigate the effects of poverty on child development, with small-to-moderate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Home Visits, Child Rearing, Economically Disadvantaged
Lee, Crystal; Lew-Williams, Casey – Infant and Child Development, 2023
Children learn words in a social environment, facilitated in part by social cues from caregivers, such as eye-gaze and gesture. A common assumption is that social cues convey either perceptual or social information, depending on the age of the child. In this review of research on word learning and social cues during early childhood, we propose…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Cues, Child Language
Luan Li; Ming Song; Qing Cai – Developmental Science, 2025
Early vocabulary development benefits from diverse lexical exposures within children's language environment. However, the influence of lexical diversity on children as they enter middle childhood and are exposed to multimodal language inputs remains unclear. This study evaluates global and local aspects of lexical diversity in three…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Lexicology, Child Language, Speech Communication
Hashmi, Salim; Vanderwert, Ross E.; Paine, Amy L.; Gerson, Sarah A. – Developmental Science, 2022
Doll play provides opportunities for children to practice social skills by creating imaginary worlds, taking others' perspectives, and talking about others' internal states. Previous research using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) found a region over the posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) was more active during solo doll play…
Descriptors: Toys, Play, Social Cognition, Interpersonal Competence
Mary E. Brushe; Murthy N. Mittinty; Tess Gregory; Dandara Haag; John W. Lynch; Sheena Reilly; Edward Melhuish; Sally A. Brinkman – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: Language development is critical for children's life chances. Promoting parent-child interactions is suggested as one mechanism to support language development in the early years. However, limited evidence exists for a causal effect of parent-child interactions on children's language development. Methods: Data from the Language in…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Interaction, Child Language, Language Acquisition
Hadley, Elizabeth Burke; Newman, Katherine Mackay; Kim, Eun Sook – Early Education and Development, 2023
Research Findings: The present study investigates both the proximal processes and contextual influences on children's oral language development in preschool. We examine whether teacher language practices vary across activity settings and program type, which teacher language practices predict children's oral language skills, and potential…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Context Effect, Oral Language, Language Acquisition
Zhou, Xin; Wang, Luchang; Hong, Xuancu; Wong, Patrick C. M. – Developmental Science, 2024
The speech register that adults especially caregivers use when interacting with infants and toddlers, that is, infant-directed speech (IDS) or baby talk, has been reported to facilitate language development throughout the early years. However, the neural mechanisms as well as why IDS results in such a developmental faciliatory effect remain to be…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Interpersonal Communication, Vocabulary Development