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Does Facial Expression Recognition Provide a Toehold for the Development of Emotion Understanding?
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Strand, Paul S.; Downs, Andrew; Barbosa-Leiker, Celestina – Developmental Psychology, 2016
The authors explored predictions from basic emotion theory (BET) that facial emotion expression recognition skills are insular with respect to their own development, and yet foundational to the development of emotional perspective-taking skills. Participants included 417 preschool children for whom estimates of these 2 emotion understanding…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Nonverbal Communication, Preschool Children, Structural Equation Models
Preschoolers with Down Syndrome Do Not yet Show the Learning and Memory Impairments Seen in Adults with Down Syndrome
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Roberts, Lynette V.; Richmond, Jenny L. – Developmental Science, 2015
Individuals with Down syndrome (DS) exhibit a behavioral phenotype of specific strengths and weaknesses, in addition to a generalized cognitive delay. In particular, adults with DS exhibit specific deficits in learning and memory processes that depend on the hippocampus, and there is some suggestion of impairments on executive function tasks that…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Down Syndrome, Genetics, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Efficacy of a Reading and Language Intervention for Children with Down Syndrome: A Randomized Controlled Trial
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Burgoyne, Kelly; Duff, Fiona J.; Clarke, Paula J.; Buckley, Sue; Snowling, Margaret J.; Hulme, Charles – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2012
Background: This study evaluates the effects of a language and literacy intervention for children with Down syndrome. Methods: Teaching assistants (TAs) were trained to deliver a reading and language intervention to children in individual daily 40-min sessions. We used a waiting list control design, in which half the sample received the…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Foreign Countries, Early Intervention, Language Skills
Rate of Language Growth in Children with Hearing Loss in an Auditory-Verbal Early Intervention Program
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Jackson, Carla Wood; Schatschneider, Christopher – American Annals of the Deaf, 2013
This longitudinal study explored the rate of language growth of children in an early intervention program providing auditory-verbal therapy. A retrospective investigation, the study applied a linear growth model to estimate a mean growth curve and the extent of individual variation in language performance on the Preschool Language Scale, 4th ed.…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Children, Hearing Impairments, Early Intervention
Cochlear Implantation in Young Children: Effects of Age at Implantation and Communication Mode.
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Kirk, Karen Iler; Miyamoto, Richard T.; Ying, Elizabeth A.; Perdew, Amy E.; Zuganelis, Helen – Volta Review, 2000
A study examined the effects of age at implantation on the development of communication abilities in 106 early-implanted children. Results revealed significant improvement in communication skills over time. Children implanted prior to age 2 had significantly faster rates of receptive vocabulary and language development than later-implanted…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cochlear Implants, Communication Skills, Deafness
Parents' and Teachers' Expectations of Auditory-Verbal Therapy
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Wu, Cheng-Ju Dora; Brown, P. Margaret – Volta Review, 2004
This study investigated parents' and teachers' expectations of Auditory-Verbal therapy and the child's language development. Data were collected by questionnaires that were distributed to parents and teachers at three early intervention centers. Twenty matching questionnaires were completed and returned. The results of this study showed that the…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Receptive Language, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition