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Zhai, Fuhua; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Waldfogel, Jane – Developmental Psychology, 2011
We used longitudinal data from a birth cohort study, the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, to investigate the links between Head Start and school readiness in a large and diverse sample of urban children at age 5 (N = 2,803; 18 cities). We found that Head Start attendance was associated with enhanced cognitive ability and social…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, School Readiness, Reference Groups, Disadvantaged Youth
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Bishop, Dorothy V. M.; Hardiman, Mervyn; Uwer, Ruth; von Suchodoletz, Waldemar – Developmental Science, 2007
It has been proposed that specific language impairment (SLI) is the consequence of low-level abnormalities in auditory perception. However, studies of long-latency auditory ERPs in children with SLI have generated inconsistent findings. A possible reason for this inconsistency is the heterogeneity of SLI. The intraclass correlation (ICC) has been…
Descriptors: Reference Groups, Language Impairments, Auditory Perception, Correlation