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Anna Harvey; Helen Spicer-Cain; Nicola Botting; Lucy Henry – First Language, 2025
Spoken narrative skills are crucial to the social and academic success of young people; however, research indicates that this may be an area of challenge for autistic adolescents. Most previous studies have used narrative elicitation tasks that incorporate visual support, and little is known about how autistic adolescents perform on less…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Language Skills, Early Adolescents, Speech Communication
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Jongmin Jung; Eon-Suk Ko – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: This study evaluates the impact of temporal synchrony between maternal touch and speech on children's early language development. It investigates whether the proportion of word-touch co-occurrence, overlap, and alignment precision in maternal input influences language acquisition, hypothesizing that such synchrony boosts infants'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Interaction
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Pamela Filiatrault-Veilleux; Chantal Desmarais; Caroline Bouchard; Breanne Esau; Audette Sylvestre – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Using a longitudinal design, this study aimed to describe inferential comprehension abilities of neglected French-speaking preschool children from 42 to 66 months of age in comparison to non-neglected peers, to examine the association with receptive vocabulary, and to determine whether rates of change in inferential abilities over time…
Descriptors: French, Inferences, Comprehension, Child Neglect
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Elena Gandolfi; Giovanna Diotallevi; Paola Viterbori – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: This study examined the language and nonverbal inhibitory control skills of Italian monolingual and bilingual typically developing (TD) preschoolers with Italian as their second language and of age-matched monolingual and bilingual peers with developmental language disorder (DLD). Method: Four groups of preschoolers were enrolled: 30 TD…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Inhibition, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
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David O'Reilly; Luling Yan – Applied Linguistics, 2025
The present study continues research that takes non-serious language more seriously (Cekaite and Aronsson 2005) by focusing on a central second language (L2) Metaphoric Competence factor, Metaphor Language Play (MLP). For willing learners, MLP offers a diversity of benefits (Bushnell 2009; Bell 2012a) despite being one of the most challenging…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Figurative Language, Mandarin Chinese
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Rebecca E. Winter; Heidrun Stoeger; Sebastian P. Suggate – First Language, 2024
A growing body of research suggests that fine motor skills (FMS) are associated with language development. In this study, we examined 76 children aged 3-6 years assessing the link between language and FMS. Specific measures included receptive and expressive vocabulary, oral narrative skills, and various fine motor tasks. Hierarchical linear…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Kindergarten, Early Childhood Education
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Victoria Lowther; Lorna Gravenstede – Deafness & Education International, 2025
It is established that a greater rate of conversational turns (CTs) is associated with improved language outcomes for hearing children (HC). This study investigates the number of CTs experienced by deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) children and HC--a total of 10 children matched for age, gender and Special Educational Needs (SEN) in an Early Years…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Deafness, Hard of Hearing, Early Childhood Education
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Stagnitti, Karen; Paatsch, Louise; Nolan, Andrea; Campbell, Kate – Early Years: An International Journal of Research and Development, 2023
Strong oral language skills are foundational for literacy development and begin before a child enters formal schooling. Oral language development has been related to pretend play abilities in children. Children, particularly those from disadvantaged areas, who enter school with low pretend play levels and oral language abilities, are at risk for…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Language Skills, Play
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Nesrin Isikoglu; Müzeyyen Güzen – Early Child Development and Care, 2024
This study aims to investigate the impact of digital storytelling activities on children's language skills, specifically focusing on expressive, receptive, and narrative abilities, as well as their utilization of technological elements in their stories. The study involved 18 children who were enrolled in a public kindergarten classroom, and it…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Educational Technology, Kindergarten, Young Children
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Lina Abed Ibrahim – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: To avoid misdiagnosis with developmental language disorder (DLD) in bilingual children, it is recommended to evaluate both languages. However, unlike their monolingual peers, bilingual children acquire their heritage language under adverse input conditions. Focusing on Levantine Arabic, the study evaluates the clinical utility of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Bilingualism, Native Language, Language Skills
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Yang Dong; Bonnie Wing-Yin Chow; Jianhong Mo; Xuecong Miao; Hao-Yuan Zheng – Journal of Research in Reading, 2024
Background: Dialogic reading (DR) is an effective shared reading technique based on the prompts-evaluate-expand-repeat (PEER) sequence, which fosters children's language development. This study examines the effects of its elements by comparing shared reading with prompts with minimal feedback (PMF) and PEER. Methods: This study included 364…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Prompting, Repetition, Language Acquisition
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Hand, Lauren Sophie; Liu, Charlotte Ka Yun; Hardman, Gemma; Mahon, Merle – Deafness & Education International, 2023
Deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children with cochlear implants (CwCIs) constitute a heterogeneous population. A multitude of factors influence their spoken language development. There is evidence that CwCIs follow similar trajectories in language development as typically developing (TD) children but there is a lack of research on specific types of…
Descriptors: Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Assistive Technology, Language Skills
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Hsin-Chieh Chen – Research in Pedagogy, 2024
Individuals with Asperger Syndrome (AS) often face difficulties in social communication and language skills, encompassing comprehension and production in both their first and second languages. English as a second language has been one of the most common communication tools and a school subject for decades in Asia; therefore, mastering English…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Communication Skills, Language Skills, Receptive Language
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Xing, Xiaopei; Wei, Yutong; Wang, Meifang – Developmental Psychology, 2022
By using a three-time longitudinal design, the present study focuses on three components of executive function (EF), respectively, to examine whether the relation between EF and receptive vocabulary was reciprocal and whether the direction of the above relation would differ by EF components and child gender. A total of 320 Chinese preschool…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Executive Function, Receptive Language, Vocabulary
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Polyanskaya, Irina; Eigsti, Inge-Marie; Brauner, Torben; Blackburn, Patrick – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2022
This study investigates the role of recursive language and working memory (WM) in second-order false belief skills in Danish-speaking children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD; n = 62; 8 females) and typical development (n = 41; 15 females), ages 6-16. Second-order false belief skills correlated with receptive grammar, vocabulary, and age;…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Short Term Memory
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