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Early Gesture Predicts Language Delay in Children with Pre- Or Perinatal Brain Lesions
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Sauer, Eve; Levine, Susan C.; Goldin-Meadow, Susan – Child Development, 2010
Does early gesture use predict later productive and receptive vocabulary in children with pre- or perinatal unilateral brain lesions (PL)? Eleven children with PL were categorized into 2 groups based on whether their gesture at 18 months was within or below the range of typically developing (TD) children. Children with PL whose gesture was within…
Descriptors: Delayed Speech, Receptive Language, Brain, Child Development
Korean Mothers' Attention Regulation and Referential Speech: Associations with Language and Play in 1-Year-Olds
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Sung, Jihyun; Hsu, Hui-Chin – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2009
The present study investigated the associations of Korean mothers' attention regulation and referential speech during play with their toddlers' language and play development. The play interaction between mothers (n = 42) and their toddlers aged between 13 and 23 months was videotaped during home visits. Maternal behavior in regulating their…
Descriptors: Play, Mothers, Prompting, Home Visits
Quality Child Care Supports the Achievement of Low-Income Children: Direct and Indirect Pathways through Caregiving and the Home Environment
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McCartney, Kathleen; Dearing, Eric; Taylor, Beck A.; Bub, Kristen L. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2007
Existing studies of child care have not been able to determine whether higher quality child care protects children from the effects of poverty, whether poverty and lower quality child care operate as dual risk factors, or whether both are true. The objective of the current study was to test two pathways through which child care may serve as a…
Descriptors: Family Environment, At Risk Persons, Receptive Language, Poverty
Otitis Media and Language Development at 1 Year of Age.
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Wallace, Ina F.; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1988
Fifteen 1-year-olds without otitis media were compared to 12 babies who were otitis positive. No significant differences were detected on the Bayley Scales of Infant Development or the Sequenced Inventory of Communication Development (SICD) Receptive scale. However, the otitis-positive group exhibited lower SICD Expressive scores than the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Communicable Diseases, Communication Skills, Ears
The Concurrent Validity of the Minnesota Child Development Inventory as a Measure of Young Children's Language Development.
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Tomblin, J. Bruce; And Others – Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1989
Fifty-seven children, aged 23-28 months, were assessed using the Sequenced Inventory of Communication Development, mean length of utterance, and Minnesota Child Development Inventory (MCDI). The MCDI Expressive Language scale was found to be a valid predictor of expressive language. The MCDI Comprehension-Conceptual scale appeared to assess both…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Language, Concurrent Validity, Expressive Language
Program Evaluation Findings of an Intensive Early Intervention Program.
Fewell, Rebecca R.; Glick, Michelle P. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 1996
An intensive early intervention program was evaluated by assessing gains made by 44 special needs children (age 2) in cognition, gross motor, fine motor, receptive language, and expressive language domains. Comparison of actual to predicted posttest scores did not reveal significant gains in any domains. In cognition, gross motor, and fine motor…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cognitive Development, Disabilities, Early Intervention