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Direct linkJennifer E. Markfeld; Zoë Kiemel; Pooja Santapuram; Samantha L. Bordman; Grace Pulliam; S. Madison Clark; Lauren H. Hampton; Bahar Keçeli-Kaysili; Jacob I. Feldman; Tiffany G. Woynaroski – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: The present study explored the extent to which early prelinguistic communication skills predict expressive language in toddlers with autistic siblings (Sibs-autism), who are known to be at high likelihood for autism and language disorder, and a comparison group of toddlers with non-autistic older siblings (Sibs-NA). Method: Participants…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Communication Skills, Expressive Language, Toddlers
Meagan R. Talbott; Gregory S. Young; Sally Ozonoff – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Identifying infants at elevated likelihood for autism and other developmental differences in the first year of life remains a significant challenge. This study explored associations between behavioral differences in infancy and developmental outcomes in toddlerhood. We conducted a secondary data analysis of 256 infants with an older autistic…
Descriptors: Infants, At Risk Persons, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Developmental Disabilities
Hannah Sawyer; Colin Bannard; Julian Pine – Language Learning, 2024
Verb-marking errors such as "she play football" and "daddy singing" are a hallmark feature of English-speaking children's speech. We investigated the proposal that these errors are input-driven errors of commission arising from the high relative frequency of subject + unmarked verb sequences in well-formed child-directed…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Verbs, Predictor Variables, Incidence
Rey-Guerra, Catalina; Zachrisson, Henrik D.; Dearing, Eric; Berry, Daniel; Kuger, Susanne; Burchinal, Margaret R.; Naerde, Ane; van Huizen, Thomas; Côté, Sylvana M. – Child Development, 2023
Whether high quantities of center-based care cause behavior problems is a controversial question. Studies using covariate adjustment for selection factors have detected relations between center care and behavior problems, but studies with stronger internal validity less often find such evidence. We examined whether within-child changes in hours in…
Descriptors: Child Care Centers, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Time
Spit, Sybren; Mulder, Hanna; Houdt, Carolien; Verhagen, Josje – Infant and Child Development, 2023
To date, virtually no studies have examined toddlers' non-response in developmental tasks. This study investigates data from 3667 toddlers to address (1) whether two aspects of non-response (completion and engagement) are separable, (2) how stable these aspects are from ages two to three, (3) how non-response relates to background characteristics,…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Developmental Tasks, Predictor Variables, Child Behavior
Megan Callahan; Johnny Matson; Celeste Tevis; Michaela Brown – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2022
Previous studies have examined the relationship between sleep problems and challenging behaviors in school-aged children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, literature has not examined this relationship in the context of toddlers or, more specifically, toddlers with aggression. The present study was conducted to examine…
Descriptors: Sleep, Behavior Problems, Toddlers, Aggression
Ann M. Folan – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Individuals with unidentified Reading Disorders are at greater risk of poor learning and social-emotional outcomes. Early identification of Reading Disorders ameliorates the risk of school failure. Researchers link early identification of specific Reading Disorders, such as Dyslexia, to communication deficits. Specifically, toddler expressive…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Vocabulary, Predictor Variables, Toddlers
Knowland, Victoria C. P.; Berens, Sam; Gaskell, M. Gareth; Walker, Sarah A.; Henderson, Lisa-Marie – Journal of Child Language, 2022
Children's vocabulary ability at school entry is highly variable and predictive of later language and literacy outcomes. Sleep is potentially useful in understanding and explaining that variability, with sleep patterns being predictive of global trajectories of language acquisition. Here, we looked to replicate and extend these findings. Data from…
Descriptors: Child Language, Vocabulary, Sleep, Predictor Variables
Caroline F. Rowland; Amy Bidgood; Gary Jones; Andrew Jessop; Paula Stinson; Julian M. Pine; Samantha Durrant; Michelle S. Peter – Language Learning, 2025
A strong predictor of children's language is performance on non-word repetition (NWR) tasks. However, the basis of this relationship remains unknown. Some suggest that NWR tasks measure phonological working memory, which then affects language growth. Others argue that children's knowledge of language/language experience affects NWR performance. A…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Comparative Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Language Skills
Nencheva, Mira L.; Tamir, Diana I.; Lew-Williams, Casey – Child Development, 2023
Learning about emotions is an important part of children's social and communicative development. How does children's emotion-related vocabulary emerge over development? How may emotion-related information in caregiver input support learning of emotion labels and other emotion-related words? This investigation examined language production and input…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Toddlers, Language Usage, Speech Communication
Jennifer J. Phillips; Cheyenne A. Williams; John H. Hunter; Martha Ann Bell – Infant and Child Development, 2024
Measures of parasympathetic regulation, such as respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA), predict executive function outcomes, including inhibitory control, across childhood. Respiratory sinus arrhythmia augmentation tends to be associated with more maladaptive outcomes, compared to RSA suppression, but the literature regarding RSA profiles and…
Descriptors: Infants, Preschool Children, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship
Kolak, Amy M.; Dean, Caitlin H. – Early Child Development and Care, 2023
This multi-method study examined mothers' and fathers' cognitive stimulation during parent--child interactions and toddlers' moral regulation (assessed via parent reports) as predictors of their executive functioning skills approximately 2½ years later. Forty children (23 girls and 17 boys) and their parents participated in both timepoints.…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Preschool Children, Mothers, Fathers
Huei-Mei Liu; Feng-Ming Tsao; Chun-Yi Lin; Gwyneth Rost; Ling-Yu Guo – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: The current investigation evaluated the extent to which early noun, verb, and adjective lexicon sizes predicted later grammatical outcomes in Mandarin-speaking children with and without late language emergence (LLE) using a parent report. Method: In Study 1, the parents of 24 Mandarin-speaking children with typical language filled out the…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Vocabulary, Vocabulary Development
Plate, Samantha; Yankowitz, Lisa; Resorla, Leslie; Swanson, Meghan R.; Meera, Shoba Sreenath; Estes, Annette; Marrus, Natasha; Cola, Meredith; Petrulla, Victoria; Faggen, Aubrey; Pandey, Juhi; Paterson, Sarah; Pruett, John R., Jr.; Hazlett, Heather; Dager, Stephen; St. John, Tanya; Botteron, Kelly; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie; Piven, Joseph; Schultz, Robert T.; Parish-Morris, Julia – Child Development, 2022
Infant vocalizations are early-emerging communicative markers shown to be atypical in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but few longitudinal, prospective studies exist. In this study, 23,850 infant vocalizations from infants at low (LR)- and high (HR)-risk for ASD (HR-ASD = 23, female = 3; HR-Neg = 35, female = 13; LR = 32, female = 10; 80% White;…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Verbal Communication, Autism
Diebold, Tatiana; Perren, Sonja – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2022
The present study observed 86 three-year-old children (M = 43.7, SD = 6.4) from 15 Swiss childcare groups, to investigate multiple individual and contextual contributions to toddlers' positive engagement with peers. The children's individual characteristics (age, sex and social skills) and childcare-related predictors (emotional and behavioural…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Care Centers, Peer Relationship, Positive Attitudes
