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Bosen, Adam K.; Sevich, Victoria A.; Cannon, Shauntelle A. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: In individuals with cochlear implants, speech recognition is not associated with tests of working memory that primarily reflect storage, such as forward digit span. In contrast, our previous work found that vocoded speech recognition in individuals with normal hearing was correlated with performance on a forward digit span task. A…
Descriptors: Assistive Technology, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Individual Differences
Virginia A. Marchman; Elizabeth C. Loi; Katherine A. Adams; Melanie Ashland; Anne Fernald; Heidi M. Feldman – Grantee Submission, 2018
Objective: Identifying which preterm children (PT) are at increased risk for language and learning differences increases opportunities for participation in interventions that improve outcomes. Speed in spoken language comprehension at early stages of language development requires information processing skills that may form the foundation for later…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Language Acquisition, Comprehension, Predictor Variables
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Paradis, Johanne; Jia, Ruiting – Developmental Science, 2017
Bilingual children experience more variation in their language environment than monolingual children and this impacts their rate of language development with respect to monolinguals. How long it takes for bilingual children learning English as a second language (L2) to display similar abilities to monolingual age-peers has been estimated to be 4-6…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Individual Differences, Monolingualism
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Ensor, Rosie; Devine, Rory T.; Marks, Alex; Hughes, Claire – Child Development, 2014
Mothers' mental-state references predict individual differences in preschoolers' false-belief (FB) understanding; less is known about the origins of corresponding variation in school-age children. To address this gap, 105 children completed observations with their mothers at child ages 2 and 6, three FB tasks and a verbal comprehension…
Descriptors: Mothers, Theory of Mind, Predictor Variables, Preschool Children
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Magner, Ulrike Irmgard Elisabeth; Glogger, Inga; Renkl, Alexander – Educational Psychology, 2016
How can illustrations motivate learners in multimedia learning? Which features make illustrations interesting? Beside the theoretical relevance of addressing these questions, these issues are practically relevant when instructional designers are to decide which features of illustrations can trigger situational interest irrespective of individual…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Illustrations, Multimedia Materials, Multimedia Instruction
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Misyak, Jennifer B.; Christiansen, Morten H. – Language Learning, 2012
Although statistical learning and language have been assumed to be intertwined, this theoretical presupposition has rarely been tested empirically. The present study investigates the relationship between statistical learning and language using a within-subject design embedded in an individual-differences framework. Participants were administered…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Short Term Memory, Statistics
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Wei, Liew Tze; Sazilah, Salam – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2012
This study investigated the effects of visual cues in multiple external representations (MER) environment on the learning performance of novices' program comprehension. Program codes and flowchart diagrams were used as dual representations in multimedia environment to deliver lessons on C-Programming. 17 field independent participants and 16 field…
Descriptors: Programming, Multimedia Materials, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Science Education
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Chapman, Robin S. – Down Syndrome Research and Practice, 2006
Children and adolescents with Down syndrome show an emerging profile of speech and language characteristics that is typical of the syndrome (Chapman & Hesketh, 2000; Chapman, 2003; Abbeduto & Chapman, 2005) and different from typically developing children matched for nonverbal mental age, including expressive language deficits relative to…
Descriptors: Down Syndrome, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Matched Groups
Bard, Therese Bissen – 1978
Two hundred Honolulu-area students from the fourth, fifth, eighth, and ninth grades participated in a study that examined the variables effects of five selected factors (developmental level, sex, reading ability, adult intervention, and variation in film content/form) on the ability of two age groups (nine and ten year old children and thirteen…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Comprehension
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Chapman, Robin S.; Sindberg, Heidi; Bridge, Cynthia; Gigstead, Katherine; Hesketh, Linda – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine whether memory support and elicited production differentially benefited fast mapping of new vocabulary (comprehension, production accuracy, and speed) in adolescents with Down syndrome (DS) compared with typically developing (TD) children matched for syntax comprehension. The study also examined…
Descriptors: Hearing (Physiology), Auditory Perception, Individual Differences, Morphemes