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Silva, Macarena; Cain, Kate – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
This study of 4- to 6-year-olds had 2 aims: first, to determine how lower level comprehension skills (receptive vocabulary and grammar) and verbal memory support early higher level comprehension skills (inference and literal story comprehension), and second, to establish the predictive power of these skills on subsequent reading comprehension.…
Descriptors: Young Children, Receptive Language, Vocabulary, Grammar
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Yoder, Paul J.; Warren, Steven F. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2004
Predictors of productive and receptive language development in 39 children with intellectual disabilities (17 with Down syndrome) and their parents were identified. Children were in the prelinguistic or first stage of productive language acquisition (Brown, 1973). The Down syndrome and non-Down syndrome groups were matched on several variables,…
Descriptors: Etiology, Receptive Language, Language Acquisition, Down Syndrome