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Glennen, Sharon – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2014
Purpose: The author followed 56 internationally adopted children during the first 3 years after adoption to determine how and when they reached age-expected language proficiency in Standard American English. The influence of age of adoption was measured, along with the relationship between early and later language and speech outcomes. Method:…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Adoption, English, Language Proficiency
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Hough, Susan D.; Kaczmarek, Louise – Journal of Early Intervention, 2011
In recent years, many children from Eastern European orphanages have been adopted by families in the United States. When children begin life with their new families, they experience an abrupt language shift in which the learning of their native language halts as the learning of the new language commences. Without the support of their native…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Semantics, Syntax, Oral Language