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Moodley, P.; Kritzinger, A.; Vinck, B. – South African Journal of Education, 2014
The Early Childhood Development Manager in Mpumalanga is faced with the problem of providing evidence-based guidance of the best facilitation approach in the Grade R context. An investigation on the effect of facilitation, i.e. play-based or formal instruction, on Grade R performance scores in English Additional Language (EAL) learning was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Rural Schools
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Klein, Kelsey E.; Wie, Ona Bø – European Journal of Special Needs Education, 2015
Narratives require the integration of many different linguistic skills and can be used as an ecologically valid measure of child language development. This study investigated the narrative skills of 18 six- to seven-year-old prelingually deaf children who received simultaneous bilateral cochlear implants (CI) between 5 and 18 months of age. No…
Descriptors: Surgery, Assistive Technology, Deafness, Hearing Impairments
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Matthews-Somerville, Rochelle C.; Cress, Cynthia J. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2005
The authors compared parent-perceived communication behaviors for formally assessed stages longitudinally for 42 infants at risk for being nonspeaking. They compared perceived communication behaviors at assessed transitions to communicative stages (intentional behavior, intentional communication, symbolic communication) and found systematic…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Longitudinal Studies, Infants, Parent Participation