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Peer reviewedShore, Cecilia – Developmental Psychology, 1986
Explores the relations among combinatorial capacities in language, symbolic play, blockbuilding, and nonsemantic action sequences within a sample of 18- to 24-month-old children, as well as assessing the developmental level of a selected subset of concepts. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Peer reviewedSigman, Marian; Mundy, Peter – New Directions for Child Development, 1987
Demonstrates that young autistic children suffer from deficits in social understanding and symbolic representations of other individuals. Data suggest that the core deficit appears to lie at the intersection of representational abilities and social experiences. (RWB)
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Patterns, Body Language, Child Language
Download full textNicolich, Lorraine McCune – 1975
This study examined (1) the level of symbolic capability as revealed in play, (2) the use of spontaneous vocal imitation, and (3) the nature of certain classes of words occurring in spontaneous infant language. Facets of child behavior were examined during the period of single-word utterances and early multiword combinations with a view to…
Descriptors: Child Language, Cognitive Development, Developmental Psychology, Imitation
