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Ungerer, Judy A.; Sigman, Marian – Child Development, 1984
The concurrent and predictive relations of sensorimotor behavior and play to language in the second year were assessed among 19 preterm and 20 full-term infants tested at 13 1/2 and 22 months of age. Numerous associations between play and language were identified; sensorimotor behavior and language in the same age period were relatively loosely…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Expressive Language, Infant Behavior, Infants
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Selmi, Ann M.; Haynes, O. M.; Painter, Kathleen M.; Marx, Eric S. – Child Development, 1999
Assessed representational abilities in hearing and deaf 2-year-old children of hearing and deaf mothers. Found group differences in expressive and receptive language based on maternal report and on experimenter assessment, but no differences emerged in child solitary symbolic play or in child- or mother-initiated child collaborative symbolic play.…
Descriptors: Child Language, Children, Cognitive Development, Deafness
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Spencer, Patricia Elizabeth – Child Development, 1996
Investigated associations between expressive language and symbolic play in deaf children with deaf parents or with hearing parents, and hearing children with hearing parents. Defined three language level groups. Hearing status was associated with duration of symbolic play. Higher language levels were associated with more canonically sequenced and…
Descriptors: Child Language, Deafness, Expressive Language, Hearing (Physiology)