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Qi, Cathy H.; Kaiser, Ann P.; Marley, Scott C.; Milan, Stephanie – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2012
The purposes of the study were to determine (a) the ability of two spontaneous language measures, mean length of utterance in morphemes (MLU-m) and number of different words (NDW), to identify African American preschool children at low and high levels of language ability; (b) whether child chronological age was related to the performance of either…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Morphemes, Age Differences, Expressive Language
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Horton-Ikard, RaMonda; Weismer, Susan Ellis – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2007
Purpose: This study examined the effect of socioeconomic status (SES) on the early lexical performance of African American children. Method: Thirty African American toddlers (30 to 40 months old) from low-SES (n = 15) and middle-SES (n = 15) backgrounds participated in the study. Their lexical-semantic performance was examined on 2 norm-referenced…
Descriptors: African American Children, Toddlers, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development