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Houston-Price, Carmel; Plunkett, Kim; Duffy, Hester – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2006
This article explores young infants' ability to learn new words in situations providing tightly controlled social and salience cues to their reference. Four experiments investigated whether, given two potential referents, 15-month-olds would attach novel labels to (a) an image toward which a digital recording of a face turned and gazed, (b) a…
Descriptors: Child Psychology, Infants, Visual Stimuli, Cues
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McNaughton, Shirley – Topics in Language Disorders, 1993
This article explores the effect of augmentative and alternative communication systems on literacy acquisition by young children with severe speech and physical impairments. The possibility of a relationship between the type of graphic symbols used for communication as a preschooler and the child's early reading competency is considered. (DB)
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Child Development, Communication Disorders, Early Childhood Education