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Stuttering Behavior in a National Age Cohort of Norwegian First-Graders with Down Syndrome
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Hokstad, Silje; Næss, Kari-Anne B.; Yaruss, J. Scott; Hoff, Karoline; Melle, Ane H.; Lervåg, Arne Ola – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: The aims of this study were to investigate the occurrence of stuttering behavior across time and to evaluate the relationship between stuttering behavior and language ability in children with Down syndrome. Method: A national age cohort of Norwegian first graders with Down syndrome (N = 75) participated in the study. Speech samples from a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Down Syndrome, Stuttering, Grade 1
The Relations between Lower and Higher Level Comprehension Skills and Their Role in Prediction of Early Reading Comprehension
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Silva, Macarena; Cain, Kate – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2015
This study of 4- to 6-year-olds had 2 aims: first, to determine how lower level comprehension skills (receptive vocabulary and grammar) and verbal memory support early higher level comprehension skills (inference and literal story comprehension), and second, to establish the predictive power of these skills on subsequent reading comprehension.…
Descriptors: Young Children, Receptive Language, Vocabulary, Grammar