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Shared Picture Book Reading Interventions for Child Language Development: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
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Dowdall, Nicholas; Melendez-Torres, G. J.; Murray, Lynne; Gardner, Frances; Hartford, Leila; Cooper, Peter J. – Child Development, 2020
Interventions that train parents to share picture books with children are seen as a strategy for supporting child language development. We conducted meta-analyses using robust variance estimation modeling on results from 19 RCTs (N[subscript total] = 2,594; M[subscript child age] = 1-6 years). Overall, book-sharing interventions had a small sized…
Descriptors: Intervention, Picture Books, Child Language, Language Acquisition
Developmental Trajectories in Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorders: The First 3 Years
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Landa, Rebecca J.; Gross, Alden L.; Stuart, Elizabeth A.; Faherty, Ashley – Child Development, 2013
Retrospective studies indicate 2 major classes of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) onset: early and later, after a period of relatively healthy development. This prospective, longitudinal study examined social, language, and motor trajectories in 235 children with and without a sibling with autism, ages 6-36 months. Children were grouped as: ASD…
Descriptors: Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism, Comparative Analysis, Longitudinal Studies
Language Development in Internationally Adopted Children: A Special Case of Early Second Language Learning
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Gauthier, Karine; Genesee, Fred – Child Development, 2011
The French language development of children adopted (n = 24) from China was compared with that of control children matched for socioeconomic status, sex, and age. The children were assessed at 50 months of age, on average, and 16 months later. The initial assessment revealed that the 2 groups did not differ with respect to socioemotional…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Receptive Language, Foreign Countries, Expressive Language
Peer Effects on Children's Language Achievement during Pre-Kindergarten
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Mashburn, Andrew J.; Justice, Laura M.; Downer, Jason T.; Pianta, Robert C. – Child Development, 2009
This study examined associations between peers' expressive language abilities and children's development of receptive and expressive language among 1,812 four-year olds enrolled in 453 classrooms in 11 states that provide large-scale public pre-kindergarten (pre-k) programs. Higher peer expressive language abilities were positively associated with…
Descriptors: Peer Influence, Child Development, Language Acquisition, Young Children
Relations between Parenting Quality and Cognitive Performance of Children Experiencing Varying Amounts of Childcare
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Adi-Japha, Esther; Klein, Pnina S. – Child Development, 2009
Associations between parenting quality and 3-year-olds' school readiness, receptive, and expressive language were examined in relation to the amount of time they spent in childcare, based on data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N = 1,364). Associations for school readiness and receptive language were stronger among…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Child Rearing, Parent Child Relationship, Receptive Language
Learning to Talk about Emotions: A Functionalist Perspective.
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Bretherton, Inge; And Others – Child Development, 1986
Examines young children's developing ability to talk about emotions, considers evidence concerning the ability to talk about emotions in the conduct of interpersonal interaction, and offers ideas about future directions for research, emphasizing the functionalist approach to the analysis of emotion-denoting terms. (HOD)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Emotional Development, Emotional Response, Expressive Language