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ISL-Signing Mothers' Practices for Boosting Hearing-Signing Children's Engagement in Shared Reading
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Orit Fuks – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2024
This longitudinal multiple-case study research focused on the scaffolding strategies that two Israeli deaf mothers use to boost their young hearing children's engagement in reading interactions. Despite being significant to language learning, few studies have examined the dialogic reading practices of deaf-signing mothers. The study shows that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Sign Language, Total Communication
Criterion Validity of the Early Communication Indicator for Infants and Toddlers
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Greenwood, Charles R.; Buzhardt, Jay; Walker, Dale; Jia, Fan; Carta, Judith J. – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2020
The Early Communication Indicator (ECI) is a progress monitoring measure designed to support intervention decisions of the home visitors and early educators who serve infants and toddlers. The present study sought to add to the criterion validity claims of the ECI in a large sample of children using measures of language and preliteracy not…
Descriptors: Progress Monitoring, Total Communication, Infants, Toddlers
Criterion Validity of the Early Communication Indicator for Infants and Toddlers
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Greenwood, Charles R.; Buzhardt, Jay; Walker, Dale; Jia, Fan; Carta, Judith J. – Grantee Submission, 2020
The Early Communication Indicator (ECI) is a progress monitoring measure designed to support intervention decisions of the home visitors and early educators who serve infants and toddlers. The present study sought to add to the criterion validity claims of the ECI in a large sample of children using measures of language and preliteracy not…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Students with Disabilities, Educational Legislation, Equal Education
Program-Level Influences on the Measurement of Early Communication for Infants and Toddlers in Early Head Start
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Greenwood, Charles R.; Buzhardt, Jay; Walker, Dale; Howard, Waylon J.; Anderson, Rawni – Journal of Early Intervention, 2011
Measurement in early childhood is an increasingly large-scale endeavor addressing purposes of accountability, program improvement, child outcomes, and intervention decision making for individual children. The Early Communication Indicator (ECI) is a measure relevant to intervention decision making for infants and toddlers, including response to…
Descriptors: Individualized Family Service Plans, Early Intervention, Total Communication, Program Improvement
The Early Communication Indicator for Infants and Toddlers: Early Head Start Growth Norms from Two States
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Greenwood, Charles R.; Walker, Dale; Buzhardt, Jay – Journal of Early Intervention, 2010
The Early Communication Indicator (ECI) is a measure relevant to intervention decision making and progress monitoring for infants and toddlers. With increasing recognition of the importance of quality early childhood education and intervention for all children, measurement plays an important role in documenting children's progress and outcomes of…
Descriptors: Individualized Family Service Plans, Total Communication, Early Childhood Education, Disadvantaged Youth
The Development of Proto-Performative Utterances in Deaf Toddlers
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Lichtert, Guido F.; Loncke, Filip T. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine and compare the development of proto-imperative and proto-declarative utterances in normally developing, non-neonatally screened, profoundly deaf toddlers. Method: Both types of proto-declarative are considered to be the most basic prelinguistic and early linguistic communicative functions.…
Descriptors: Total Communication, Toddlers, Linguistics, Deafness