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The Development of Gesture Skills in Chinese Autistic Children: The Predictive Roles of Age and Language Ability
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Xin Zhang; Xue-Ke Song; Wing-Chee So – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Gesture delay in autistic infants and toddlers has been widely reported. The developmental trajectory of gesture production during early childhood is understudied. Thus, little is known about the possible changes of gesture production over time. The present study aimed to document the development of gesture production in autistic children…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Nonverbal Communication, Age Differences
Formal Literacy Practices through Play: Exposure to Adult Literacy Practices Increases Child-Led Learning and Interest
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Colliver, Yeshe; Arguel, Amael; Parrila, Rauno – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2021
Early literacy is largely acquired through child-led learning, yet current ways to support and enhance it may present problems of coercion and adult control. The "Following in our Footsteps II" intervention sought to circumvent such problems by teaching parent and educator pairs of 46 preschoolers how to make everyday literacy and…
Descriptors: Literacy, Adult Literacy, Learning Processes, Child Development
Gender Differences in Achievement in a Large, Nationally Representative Sample of Children and Adolescents
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Scheiber, Caroline; Reynolds, Matthew R.; Hajovsky, Daniel B.; Kaufman, Alan S. – Psychology in the Schools, 2015
The purpose of this study was to investigate developmental gender differences in academic achievement areas, with the primary focus on writing, using the child and adolescent portion (ages 6-21 years) of the "Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement-Second Edition, Brief Form," norming sample (N = 1,574). Path analytic models with gender,…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Academic Achievement, Writing Skills, Path Analysis
A Multigroup Investigation of Latent Cognitive Abilities and Reading Achievement Relations
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Hajovsky, Daniel; Reynolds, Matthew R.; Floyd, Randy G.; Turek, Joshua J.; Keith, Timothy Z. – School Psychology Review, 2014
The structural relations between the Cattell-Horn-Carroll abilities and reading achievement outcome variables across child and adolescent development were examined in the "Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children, Second Edition", and the "Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement, Second Edition", co-normed sample. We estimated…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Cognitive Ability, Children, Child Development
Graphemic Features of Single Word Recognition and Spelling Performance.
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Rupley, William H.; And Others – 1996
A study investigated whether developmental patterns found in an earlier study were related to spelling and if salient structural features of words for word recognition contributed to spelling performance. Word recognition (decoding) and spelling data were taken from the normative sample of the Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement. Data were…
Descriptors: Child Development, Decoding (Reading), Developmental Stages, Elementary Education
Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement/Normative Update (K-TEA/NU.)
Miller, Lamoine J. – Diagnostique, 1999
This article describes the Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement, an individually administered measure of the school achievement of children ages 6 to 18 years. The normative update extended the age range to include examinees from 19 to 22 years. Its administration, standardization, reliability, and validity are discussed. (Contains references.)…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Child Development