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Ferris, Kyliah Petrita; Guiberson, Mark; Bush, Erin J. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2021
Native American tribes and families are highly pluralistic in their ideologies, beliefs, traditions, and values. Very little research has described the parenting and child-rearing beliefs of Native American caregivers. The purpose of this study was to gain an understanding of Native American caregivers' developmental priorities and preferences…
Descriptors: Young Children, Child Development, Reservation American Indians, Cultural Maintenance
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Gerber, Sima – Topics in Language Disorders, 2017
In this article, the breadth and depth of play as an integrating process for children with developmental challenges are explored. The fact that play is a source of developmental growth suggests that its role in intervention with children with language and communication disorders cannot be overstated. Several contemporary play-based intervention…
Descriptors: Play, Children, Intervention, Autism
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Rice, Catherine E.; Adamson, Lauren B.; Winner, Ellen; McGee, Gail G. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2016
This study examined the ways in which young children with autism and typical children focus their engagement with objects and people (peers and adults) in an inclusive preschool setting. A cross-sectional analysis was conducted of 30 typical children and 30 children with autism, with 10 different children from each group at 3 different ages (2, 3,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Autism, Attention, Preschool Education
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Rollins, Pamela Rosenthal – Topics in Language Disorders, 2016
This article elucidates the unfolding of 3 phases of cognitive development through which typical children move during the first 2 years of life to illuminate the interrelationships among early cognition, communicative intention, and word-learning strategies. The resulting theoretical framework makes clear the developmental prerequisites for social…
Descriptors: Young Children, Interpersonal Communication, Social Environment, Interaction
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Wieder, Serena – Topics in Language Disorders, 2017
Symbolic play is a powerful vehicle for supporting emotional development and communication. It embraces all developmental capacities. This article describes how symbols are formed and how emotional themes are symbolized whereby children reveal their understanding of the world, their feelings and relationships, and how they see themselves in the…
Descriptors: Play, Emotional Response, Models, Child Development
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Stanzione, Christopher; Schick, Brenda – Topics in Language Disorders, 2014
Theory of Mind (ToM) is a foundational skill related to understanding the thoughts, beliefs, and desires of oneself and others. There are child factors that play an important role in the development of ToM (e.g., language and vocabulary) as well as environmental factors (e.g., conversations among family members and socioeconomic status). In this…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Environmental Influences
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Wilson, Samantha L. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2009
The child-caregiver relationship has long been recognized as crucial to social-emotional functioning and later development. Specifically, the consistency with which caregivers interact with young children in warm, supportive ways is related to optimal early development. This may be especially critical in the families formed by international…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Speech Language Pathology, Attachment Behavior, Adoption
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Glennen, Sharon – Topics in Language Disorders, 2009
Children adopted from abroad at older ages have unique speech and language-learning issues. At adoption, the impact of longer stays in orphanages with their associated lack of enrichment, nutrition, and healthcare is more pronounced. After adoption, the children begin school in a new language soon after arriving home. These children quickly lose…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Speech Language Pathology, Guidelines, Foreign Countries
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Scott, Kathleen A. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2009
Growing evidence suggests that, as a group, many internationally adopted children catch up to their peers in terms of their language development by the time they reach their school-age years. Although this appears to be particularly true for children adopted during the first few years of life, it is not true for all internationally adopted…
Descriptors: Written Language, Language Skills, Adoption, Skill Development
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Roberts, Jenny A.; Scott, Kathleen A. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2009
Research on the language development of internationally adopted children has increased substantially in the past few years, with a variety of methods used to measure language abilities in this population, including parent and teacher reports, norm-referenced tests, conversational and narrative language samples, and other procedures. These…
Descriptors: Intervention, Language Impairments, Adoption, Language Acquisition
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Mervis, Carolyn B. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2009
Williams syndrome is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder caused by deletion of approximately 25 genes on chromosome 7q11.23. Children with the syndrome evidence large individual differences in both broad language and reading abilities. Nevertheless, as a group, children with this syndrome show a consistent pattern characterized by relative…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Phonics, Short Term Memory, Reading Ability
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Sutton-Smith, Brian – Topics in Language Disorders, 1986
Using an anthropological approach to folklore, the article views children's development of fictional narratives as performances that accentuate prosody. When viewed as performance, the meaning of stories is seen to be not just in the underlying structures, but also in the social and cultural contexts of the story. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Cultural Influences, Folk Culture, Narration
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van Kleeck, Anne; Schuele, C. Melanie – Topics in Language Disorders, 1987
To better understand language-disordered children, the article describes prelinguistic development in normal children including such precursors to literacy as literacy socialization, a life filled with literacy events and functions, language awareness, word consciousness, ability to segment sentences into words, phonological awareness, and…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cultural Influences, Language Acquisition, Language Handicaps
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Kemper, Susan; Edwards, Linda L. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1986
The article explores the development of children's understanding of causality, its effect on narrative development and organization; and the development of intentional, goal directed behavior. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Child Development, Concept Formation, Etiology
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Treiman, Rebecca; Bourassa, Derrick C. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2000
This article reviews the literature on spelling development in alphabetic scripts. It describes how once children begin to learn that the function of alphabetic writing is to represent the sounds of language, they go through the process of learning sound-spelling correspondence in increasingly fine detail, from syllables to phonemes. (Contains…
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Developmental Stages, Language Impairments
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