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Levine, Dani; Pace, Amy; Luo, Rufan; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; de Villiers, Jill; Igesias, Aquiles; Wilson, Mary Sweig – Grantee Submission, 2020
Early language competence is a reliable and powerful predictor of children's success in school, and word gaps linked to socioeconomic status disparities have cascading effects on academic outcomes. While early research -- such as the work of Hart and Risley (1995) -- focused on gaps in vocabulary, growing evidence reveals wide gaps in syntax as…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Socioeconomic Status, Screening Tests, Social Differences
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Sparks, Richard L. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2004
Children classified as hyperlexic learn to read words spontaneously before age five, are impaired in both reading and listening comprehension, and exhibit word recognition skills above their linguistic and cognitive abilities. Despite their strong word recognition skills, previous studies have shown that the phonemic awareness skills of hyperlexic…
Descriptors: Children, Language Impairments, Word Recognition, Language Processing