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Masek, Lillian R.; Patterson, Sarah J.; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Bakeman, Roger; Adamson, Lauren B.; Owen, Margaret Tresch; Pace, Amy; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy – Grantee Submission, 2020
Infants from low-socioeconomic status (SES) households hear a projected 30 million fewer words than their higher-SES peers. In a recent study, Hirsh-Pasek et al. (Psychological Science, 2015; 26: 1071) found that in a low-income sample, fluency and connectedness in exchanges between caregivers and toddlers predicted child language a year later…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Social Differences, Child Language, Language Acquisition
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Özçaliskan, Seyda; Adamson, Lauren B.; Dimitrova, Nevena – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2016
Research with typically developing children suggests a strong positive relation between early gesture use and subsequent vocabulary development. In this study, we ask whether gesture production plays a similar role for children with autism spectrum disorder. We observed 23 18-month-old typically developing children and 23 30-month-old children…
Descriptors: Prediction, Vocabulary Development, Nonverbal Communication, Expressive Language
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Smith, Ashlyn L.; Romski, Mary Ann; Sevcik, Rose A.; Adamson, Lauren B.; Bakeman, Roger – Journal of Early Intervention, 2011
The effects of a parent-coached language intervention on parent stress and its relation to parent perceptions of communication development were examined in 60 parents of toddlers with developmental delays. Results indicated that overall parent stress was not high prior to or following language intervention. Parents' perceptions about the severity…
Descriptors: Intervention, Parents, Expressive Language, Developmental Delays