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Lipreading in School-Age Children: The Roles of Age, Hearing Status, and Cognitive Ability
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Tye-Murray, Nancy; Hale, Sandra; Spehar, Brent; Myerson, Joel; Sommers, Mitchell S. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2014
Purpose: The study addressed three research questions: Does lipreading improve between the ages of 7 and 14 years? Does hearing loss affect the development of lipreading? How do individual differences in lipreading relate to other abilities? Method: Forty children with normal hearing (NH) and 24 with hearing loss (HL) were tested using 4…
Descriptors: Hearing Impairments, Deafness, Comparative Analysis, Children
Developmental and Behavioral Performance of Internationally Adopted Preschoolers: A Pilot Study
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Jacobs, Emma; Miller, Laurie C.; Tirella, Linda G. – Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2010
Most international adoptees (IA) have rapid catch-up of the delays common at arrival. However, it is not known whether development at arrival predicts later abilities or school readiness. Therefore, we comprehensively evaluated language, fine motor, visual reception (VR), executive function (EF), attention (ATT), and sensory skills (SS) in IA…
Descriptors: Listening Comprehension, School Readiness, Standardized Tests, At Risk Students
Disabled Readers: Their Intellectual and Perceptual Capacities at Differing Ages.
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Miller, John W.; McKenna, Michael C. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1981
Two groups of disabled readers, ages 8 and 11, were tested. Perceptual abilities related more strongly for younger students, while intelligence related more strongly for older students. Questions are raised about the validity of using expectancy formulae with younger disabled readers and the "learning disabilities" approach with older disabled…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Elementary Education, Intelligence, Perceptual Development
Cognitive-Perceptual Distortion in Depression as a Function of Generational Differences.
Stehouwer, R. Scott; Bultsma, Craig A. – 1980
Since adolescent depression has become more frequently recognized, its manifestations need to be identified. To explore cognitive-perceptual distortions in depression as a function of generational (adolescent vs. adult) differences, 25 adult and 25 adolescent female inpatients diagnosed as depressed were administered the Beck Depression Inventory…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Cognitive Development
Young Children's Perceptions of Television Reality: Determinants and Developmental Differences.
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Wright, John C.; And Others – Developmental Psychology, 1994
Five and seven year olds were able to correctly distinguish between factual and fictional television programs and test clips, based upon genre of program, production features, content. Age and vocabulary scores predicted accuracy of factuality judgments, but television viewing history did not. Older children understood better than younger ones…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Broadcast Television, Childhood Attitudes, Early Childhood Education
The Relationship of Maternal and Infant Variables to School Readiness.
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Rubin, Rosalyn A.; And Others – 1975
A prospective longitudinal investigation related 76 maternal and infant variables to performance on the Metropolitan Readiness Tests (MRT) at age six. The 1,245 study subjects have been followed since birth. Their distribution on measures of intelligence and socioeconomic status is essentially normal. Subjects with high MRT scores were found to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Analysis of Variance, Birth Order, Infants