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Venker, Courtney E.; Neumann, Dominik; Aladé, Fashina – Autism & Developmental Language Impairments, 2022
Background & Aims: Many young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) demonstrate striking delays in early vocabulary development. Experimental studies that teach the meanings of novel nonwords can determine the effects of linguistic and attentional factors. One factor that may affect novel referent selection in children with ASD is…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Vocabulary Development, Attention Deficit Disorders, Attention Control
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Hsin-Hui Lu; Wei-Chun Che; Yung-Hao Yang; Feng-Ming Tsao – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background and Aims: This longitudinal study investigated the language skills, phonological working memory and lexical-tone perception of Mandarin-speaking late-talkers (LTs) and those with typical language development (TLD) at 27 months, while also examining their connections with novel word-referent mapping (W-R mapping) through eye-tracking at…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Mandarin Chinese, Delayed Speech, Language Skills
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van der Wilt, Femke; Boerma, Inouk; van Oers, Bert; van der Veen, Chiel – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2019
Language ability plays a major role in children's future development. In the present study, the effect of three interactive reading approaches on children's language ability was investigated through a pre-posttest design. Participants were N = 73 children (aged 4-6) from three early childhood education classrooms. Classrooms were assigned to one…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Vocabulary Development, Pretests Posttests, Child Development