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Eskola, Eeva; Kataja, Eeva-Leena; Pelto, Juho; Tuulari, Jetro J.; Hyönä, Jukka; Häikiö, Tuomo; Hessels, Roy S.; Holmberg, Eeva; Nordenswan, Elisabeth; Karlsson, Hasse; Karlsson, Linnea; Korja, Riikka – Developmental Psychology, 2023
The normative, developmental changes in affect-biased attention during the preschool years are largely unknown. To investigate the attention bias for emotional versus neutral faces, an eye-tracking measurement and free viewing of paired pictures of facial expressions (i.e., happy, fearful, sad, or angry faces) and nonface pictures with neutral…
Descriptors: Attention, Attention Control, Bias, Emotional Response
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Jokihaka, Suvi; Laasonen, Marja; Lahti-Nuuttila, Pekka; Smolander, Sini; Kunnari, Sari; Arkkila, Eva; Pesonen, Anu-Katriina; Heinonen, Kati – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: This study explores whether the quality of parent-child interaction is associated with language abilities cross-sectionally and longitudinally up to preschool-age among children with developmental language disorder (DLD). Method: Participants were 97 monolingual children with DLD and their parents from the Helsinki Longitudinal SLI study,…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Developmental Disabilities, Language Impairments, Parent Child Relationship
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Sari Kunnari; Susana Sanduvete-Chaves; Salvador Chacon-Moscoso; Dina Caetano Alves; Martina Ozbic; Kakia Petinou; Anna-Kaisa Tolonen; Krisztina Zajdó; Pauline Frizelle; Carol-Anne Murphy; David Saldana; Marja Laasonen – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Phonological difficulties are prevalent in children with speech and/or language disorders and may hamper their later language outcomes and academic achievements. These children often form a significant proportion of speech and language therapists' caseloads. There is a shortage of information on evidence-based interventions for…
Descriptors: Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Expressive Language, Language Impairments, Speech Impairments
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Plym, Jade; Lahti-Nuuttila, Pekka; Smolander, Sini; Arkkila, Eva; Laasonen, Marja – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: Developmental language disorder (DLD) is defined by persistent difficulties with language, but a growing body of evidence suggests that it is also associated with domain-general and nonverbal information-processing deficits. However, the interconnections between cognitive functions, both nonverbal and language related, are still unclear.…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities, Cognitive Ability, Preschool Children
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Saar, Virpi; Levänen, Sari; Komulainen, Erkki – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2018
Purpose: The aim of this study was to compare the verbal and nonverbal cognitive profiles of children with specific language impairment (SLI) with problems predominantly in expressive (SLI-E) or receptive (SLI-R) language skills. These diagnostic subgroups have not been compared before in psychological studies. Method: Participants were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Expressive Language, Receptive Language
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Torppa, Minna; Lyytinen, Paula; Erskine, Jane; Eklund, Kenneth; Lyytinen, Heikki – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2010
Discriminative language markers and predictive links between early language and literacy skills were investigated retrospectively in the Jyvaskyla Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia in which children at familial risk for dyslexia have been followed from birth. Three groups were formed on the basis of 198 children's reading and spelling status. One…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Morphology (Languages), Dyslexia, Phonological Awareness