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Andrew Mandell Riviere – ProQuest LLC, 2016
The purpose of this study was to examine Cajun English (CE)-speaking children's marking of infinitival TO. To do this, CE-speaking children's marking of infinitival TO was compared to the marking of infinitival TO by Southern White English (SWE)- and African American English (AAE)-speaking children. Marking of infinitival TO also was examined as a…
Descriptors: Speech Impairments, Dialects, Kindergarten, Young Children
Kyomi Dana Gregory – ProQuest LLC, 2015
The purpose of this study was to examine the validity of teacher ratings for screening children's language skills. Teacher ratings were measured through the use of two tools, the "Children's Communication Checklist-2" (CCC-2; Bishop, 2006) and the "Teacher Rating of Oral Language and Literacy" (TROLL; Dickinson, McCabe, &…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Screening Tests, Rating Scales, Validity
Stubbs, Jessica Hart – ProQuest LLC, 2012
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a psychiatric condition that has been increasingly diagnosed in young American children, with boys being diagnosed three times more frequently than their female peers. As a result, more children than ever are being treated with powerful stimulant medications which can have various desired and undesired…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Teaching Methods, Reading Readiness