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Towards Substantive and Productive Oral Language Skills and Practices in Children from Birth to 8-Year Education Contexts in Times of Extreme Disruption
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Lesley Friend; Lynn Downes – Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, 2024
Oral language is the primary means through which a child controls, describes, organises, and evaluates their life experiences and their ability to use oral language which effectively impacts their future literacy development. Currently, the world is awash with dynamic change and constant disruption. These include natural disasters such as the…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Oral Language, Young Children, COVID-19
Maternal Responsive Behaviours and Child Language Outcomes in a Cohort of Mothers and Children Facing Adversity
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Boulton, Charlotte; Levickis, Penny; Eadie, Tricia – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
Children facing adversity are at greater risk of experiencing language difficulties than their peers. This study aims to examine the association between specific maternal responsive behaviours at 24 months and language outcomes at the age of 5 years in a cohort of mothers and children facing adversity. Mother-child dyads (n = 138) facing adversity…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Child Language, Preschool Children
Parent-Reported Patterns of Loss and Gain in Communication in 1- to 2-Year-Old Children Are Not Unique to Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Brignell, Amanda; Williams, Katrina; Prior, Margot; Donath, Susan; Reilly, Sheena; Bavin, Edith L.; Eadie, Patricia; Morgan, Angela T. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
We compared loss and gain in communication from 1 to 2 years in children later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (n = 41), language impairment (n = 110) and in children with typical language development at 7 years (n = 831). Participants were selected from a prospective population cohort study of child language (the Early Language in…
Descriptors: Infants, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Comparative Analysis
Supporting Caregivers in Developing Responsive Communication Partnerships with Their Children: Extending a Caregiver-Led Interactive Language Program
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Cologon, Kathy; Wicks, Lilly; Salvador, Aliza – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2017
This study investigates whether extension of a caregiver-led interactive language program may enhance its effectiveness in supporting communication. Caregiver-led language programs, which focus on establishing responsive interaction patterns to support opportunities for communication between caregivers and young children within natural settings,…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Intervention, Program Effectiveness, Disabilities
The Early Language in Victoria Study: Predicting Vocabulary at Age One and Two Years from Gesture and Object Use
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Bavin, E. L.; Prior, M.; Reilly, S.; Bretherton, L.; Williams, J.; Eadie, P.; Barrett, Y.; Ukoumunne, O. C. – Journal of Child Language, 2008
The Macarthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) have been used widely to document early communicative development. The paper reports on a large community sample of 1,447 children recruited from low, middle and high socioeconomic (SES) areas across metropolitan Melbourne, Australia. Regression analyses were conducted to determine…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Foreign Countries, Vocabulary Development, Measures (Individuals)
To Talk or Not To Talk: That Is the Question.
Clyde, Margaret – 1990
This paper elaborates on a series of quotations to illustrate major influences in children's language development. The first quotation, from Lilian G. Katz (1988), suggests that what children like is not necessarily developmentally appropriate for them. This idea can be applied to the development of language competence. In the second quotation,…
Descriptors: Child Language, Communication Skills, English Instruction, Foreign Countries