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Venuti, P.; de Falco, S.; Esposito, G.; Zaninelli, M.; Bornstein, Marc H. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Children with developmental disabilities benefit from their language environment as much as, or even more than, typically developing (TD) children, but maternal language directed to developmentally delayed children is an underinvestigated topic. The purposes of the present study were to compare maternal functional language directed to children…
Descriptors: Autism, Child Language, Down Syndrome, Developmental Delays
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O'Brien, Marion; Bi, Xiufen – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1995
Patterns of teacher language used with at-risk toddlers in three different play contexts (doll/house, block/truck, and large motor) were studied within a naturally occurring classroom setting. Significantly different language-use patterns by teachers were found in each area, and these were associated with differences in the rate and nature of…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Language, Class Activities, Classroom Communication