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Ricci, L. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2011
Background: The present study examined home literacy environments, children's interest in reading and emergent literacy skills of pre-school-aged children with Down syndrome (DS; n = 20), school-aged children with DS (n = 17) and typically developing children (n = 18) matched on chronological age with the younger DS group and mental age (MA) with…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Childhood Interests, Reading, Emergent Literacy
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Deckner, Deborah F.; Adamson, Lauren B.; Bakeman, Roger – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2006
Fifty-five children and their mothers were studied longitudinally from 18 to 42 months to determine the effects of home literacy practices, children's interest in reading, and mothers' metalingual utterances during reading on children's expressive and receptive language development, letter knowledge, and knowledge of print concepts. At 27 months,…
Descriptors: Receptive Language, Mothers, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition