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Orizaba, Lorena; Gorman, Brenda K.; Fiestas, Christine E.; Bingham, Gary E.; Terry, Nicole Patton – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine narrative language samples of Spanish-speaking preschoolers to analyze changes in microstructural and macrostructural skills in their first language (L1) from fall to spring, relationships between narrative and vocabulary skills in L1, and the extent to which fall skills predict spring performance.…
Descriptors: Spanish Speaking, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Native Language
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Moore, Heather W.; Barton, Erin E.; Chironis, Maria – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2014
The purpose of this manuscript was to describe a community-based program, Language and Play Everyday (LAPE), aimed at evaluating effective practices for enhancing parents' capacity to increase their toddlers' communication skills. LAPE was a parent education program focused on coaching parents to embed naturalistic language-enhancing…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Child Language, Communication Strategies, Communication Skills
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Chong, Wan Har; Moore, Dennis W.; Nonis, Karen P.; Tang, Hui Nee; Koh, Patricia; Wee, Sharon – Infants and Young Children, 2014
This study used a nonequivalent group design to evaluate the impact of an emergent literacy intervention on preschool children identified with early reading difficulties. Thirty-five children were compared with 39 typically developing classroom peers on various reading measures in a community-based project--"Mission I'm Possible" (MIP),…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Emergent Literacy, Intervention, Preschool Children
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Paynter, Jessica M.; Riley, Emma P.; Beamish, Wendi; Scott, James G.; Heussler, Helen S. – International Journal of Special Education, 2015
There is a relative paucity of evidence examining the effectiveness of early intervention for young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, in particular those delivered through educationally-based programmes. This study aimed to evaluate the real world effectiveness of a community-based autism-specific early learning and intervention programme in…
Descriptors: Autism, Program Evaluation, Early Intervention, Clinical Diagnosis