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"Wha Dis?" and Other Toddler-Initiated, Expressive Language-Learning Strategies.
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Domingo, Robert A.; Goldstein-Alpern, Neva – Infant-Toddler Intervention: The Transdisciplinary Journal, 1999
In this study, six percent of a 2-year-old child's spontaneous utterances in six 3-hour samples were identified as one of three expressive metalinguistic utterance types: interrogatives, hypothesis tests, and evocative utterances. Evocative utterances were used most frequently. The subject used the strategies to seek nouns 78 percent of the time.…
Descriptors: Child Development, Developmental Stages, Expressive Language, Language Acquisition
The Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework: Promoting Positive Outcomes in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children 3-5 Years Old
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Office of Head Start, US Department of Health and Human Services, 2010
This report presents a revision of the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework (2000), renamed The Head Start Child Development and Learning Framework: Promoting Positive Outcomes in Early Childhood Programs Serving Children 3-5 Years Old. The Framework outlines the essential areas of development and learning that are to be used by Head Start programs…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Early Childhood Education, Preschool Children, Disadvantaged Youth
Requesting by Preschoolers with Developmental Disabilities: Videotaped Self-Modeling and Learning of New Linguistic Structures.
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Hepting, Nancy H.; Goldstein, Howard – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1996
A study investigated the effects of using videotaped self-modeling on the acquisition of new linguistic structures used for requesting in three preschoolers with developmental disabilities. Participants were able to learn through self-modeling; however, initial difficulties with generalization to the classroom setting were found. (CR)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Developmental Disabilities, Expressive Language, Generalization
Assessment and Skill Remediation of Hyperlexic Children.
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Kistner, Janet; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1988
Hyperlexic children have superior word recognition skills accompanied by delayed development of cognitive and language abilities. Assessment of four hyperlexic children (ages 5-9) confirmed their superior abilities to retain sound/symbol associations. Written prompts were then effectively used to increase functional speech in one of the subjects.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Developmental Disabilities, Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Diagnosis
Bedtime Reading = Language Learning.
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Rogers, Deborah – Perspectives in Education and Deafness, 1993
A project called "Show-Me Bedtime Reading" explored the effects of regular one-to-one evening reading and signing sessions on the development of expressive and receptive language skills of students with deafness. Test scores indicated the positive influence of individualized reading on the development of English competence. Learning strategies…
Descriptors: Deafness, Early Childhood Education, Expressive Language, Individualized Programs
Language and Learning Skills of Hearing-Impaired Students: ASHA Monographs Number 23.
Osberger, Mary Joe, Ed. – 1986
The monograph consists of 13 author contributed chapters arising out of a Nebraska study which attempted to quantify the performance of 150 profoundly hearing impaired students (4-20 years old) in the areas of language (receptive and expressive), academics (reading, spelling, math), and related learning (visual perception and short-term memory)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Audiology, Communication Skills