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Williams, Chris – Childhood Education, 2021
Early language is important because it provides the foundations for reading, for writing, for social development-- for learning in every subject. Increasingly, research makes the link between early oral language skills and future education progress. Therefore, the growing challenge of children starting school unable to speak in sentences could not…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Story Telling, Pictorial Stimuli, Photography
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Su, Yi; Naigles, Letitia R. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2023
Vulnerability of morphosyntactic production, including grammatical aspect, has been identified in at least some children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) exposed to typologically different languages. However, Tovar et al. (2015) found strengths in comprehending grammatical aspect in English-exposed children with ASD, suggesting that the…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Mandarin Chinese, Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Kraamwinkel, Elmien; Kritzinger, Alta – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2022
Late language emergence (LLE) may result from genetic and environmental factors. Little is known about environmental factors in LLE in South Africa. The study describes the nature of differences in language functioning between toddlers with LLE and without LLE, and which factors were associated with LLE in a middle-income area in South Africa.…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Language Acquisition, Delayed Speech, Comparative Analysis
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Alsford, Elizabeth; Ralephata, Andrew; Bolderson, Sarah; Curtin, Martina; Parish, Esther; Klaber, Victoria; Griffin, Sue; Nash, Lisa; Cullen, Rachel; Musoke, Brenda; Bhalla, Sangheeta; Walker, Lindsay; Duffer, Luisa; O'Sullivan, Sylvia; Knowland, Victoria; Cozens, Suzanne; McLaren, Lindsey; Camilleri, Bernard; Halil, Suzan; Furze, Rachael; Leung, Wai; O'Gorman, Ciara; Carver, Verity; Young, Dorothy; Pring, Tim – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2017
Substantial evidence exists that social circumstances can affect children's language development. As a result many children in socially deprived areas start school with delayed language, which may persist and adversely affect their attainment. We assessed the language of children in seven reception classes in a London (UK) borough and followed the…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, English, Native Language, English (Second Language)
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Tan, Tony Xing; Loker, Troy; Dedrick, Robert F.; Marfo, Kofi – Journal of Child Language, 2012
In this study we investigated adopted Chinese girls' expressive English language outcomes in relation to their age at adoption, chronological age, length of exposure to English and developmental risk status at the time of adoption. Vocabulary and phrase utterance data on 318 girls were collected from the adoptive mothers using the Language…
Descriptors: Age, Females, Foreign Countries, Expressive Language
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Windsor, Jennifer; Benigno, Joann P.; Wing, Christine A.; Carroll, Patrick J.; Koga, Sebastian F.; Nelson, Charles A., III; Fox, Nathan A.; Zeanah, Charles H. – Child Development, 2011
This report examines 174 young children's language outcomes in the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, the first randomized trial of foster placement after institutional care. Age of foster placement was highly correlated with language outcomes. Placement by 15 months led to similar expressive and receptive language test scores as typical age…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Placement, Delayed Speech, Language Tests
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Paradis, Johanne; Emmerzael, Kristyn; Duncan, Tamara Sorenson – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2010
Purpose: Obtaining information on both languages of English language learners for assessment can be a challenge in a multilingual context. It is often difficult or impossible to observe a child's first language directly due to the absence of resources available in every language spoken. The objectives of this study were (1) to develop a parent…
Descriptors: Language Skill Attrition, Delayed Speech, Language Impairments, Multilingualism
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Bond, Z. S.; And Others – Journal of Phonetics, 1980
Describes a study investigating the effects of second language learning on voice onset time (VOT) values in production of word initial stop consonants. Production of Spanish and English words by two native Spanish speaking siblings, one delayed in the acquisition of Spanish and both learning English, was compared. (Author/MES)
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Consonants, Delayed Speech, English
Bruck, Margaret – 1978
This is the second report of a longitudinal project, initiated in 1970, in which children with and without language problems are identified in French immersion and English kindergartens and closely monitored to the end of grade 3. This study investigates the desirability of early French immersion program for English-speaking children with language…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Child Language, Delayed Speech, Early Childhood Education