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Engel, Pascale Marguerite Josiane; Santos, Flavia Heloisa; Gathercole, Susan Elizabeth – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2008
Purpose: This study evaluated the impact of socioeconomic factors on children's performance on tests of working memory and vocabulary. Method: Twenty Brazilian children, aged 6 and 7 years, from low-income families, completed tests of working memory (verbal short-term memory and verbal complex span) and vocabulary (expressive and receptive). A…
Descriptors: Learning Problems, Low Income, Short Term Memory, Socioeconomic Influences
Whitehouse, Andrew J. O.; Watt, Helen J.; Line, E. A.; Bishop, Dorothy V. M. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2009
Background: The few studies that have tracked children with developmental language disorder to adulthood have found that these individuals experience considerable difficulties with psychosocial adjustment (for example, academic, vocational and social aptitude). Evidence that some children also develop autistic symptomatology over time has raised…
Descriptors: Autism, Language Impairments, Children, Young Adults
Wetherell, Danielle; Botting, Nicola; Conti-Ramsden, Gina – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2007
There is a debate about whether the language of children with primary language disorders and normal cognitive levels is qualitatively different from those with language impairments who have low or borderline non-verbal IQ (NVIQ). As children reach adolescence, this distinction may be even harder to ascertain, especially in naturalistic settings.…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Adolescents, Standardized Tests, Intelligence Quotient
Estes, Katharine Graf; Evans, Julia L.; Else-Quest, Nicole M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2007
Purpose: This study presents a meta-analysis of the difference in nonword repetition performance between children with and without specific language impairment (SLI). The authors investigated variability in the effect sizes (i.e., the magnitude of the difference between children with and without SLI) across studies and its relation to several…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Effect Size, Language Impairments, Language Aptitude
Lindsay, Geoff; Dockrell, Julie E.; Strand, Steve – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2007
Background: The purpose of this study was to examine the stability of behavioural, emotional and social difficulties (BESD) in children with specific speech and language difficulties (SSLD), and the relationship between BESD and the language ability. Methods: A sample of children with SSLD were assessed for BESD at ages 8, 10 and 12 years by both…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Language Aptitude, Longitudinal Studies, Behavior Problems
Dworzynski, Katharina; Ronald, Angelica; Hayiou-Thomas, Marianna; Rijsdijk, Fruhling; Happe, Francesca; Bolton, Patrick F.; Plomin, Robert – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2007
Background: Impairments in language and communication are core features of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). The basis for this association is poorly understood. How early language is related to each of the triad of impairments characteristic of ASDs is also in need of clarification. Aims: This is the first study that aims to determine the extent…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Genetics, Children, Asperger Syndrome
Remine, Maria D.; Brown, P. Margaret; Care, Esther; Rickards, Field – Deafness and Education International, 2007
For several decades the intellectual abilities of deaf children and adolescents, as measured by performance IQ, have been reported as comparable with those of hearing children and adolescents. Differences have been reported, however, on measures of verbal IQ, with deaf children and adolescents typically obtaining verbal IQ scores within the low…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Speech Skills, Delayed Speech, Oral Language

Johnson, Edward S.; Meade, Ann C. – Child Development, 1987
Data from a battery of spatial tests taken by children six to 18 years old indicate that a male advantage in spatial performance appears reliably by age 10, and that the magnitude of the advantage remains constant through age 18. (PCB)
Descriptors: Child Development, Children, Females, Language Aptitude
Lawlor, Debbie A.; Clark, Heather; Ronalds, Georgina; Leon, David A. – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2006
Background: In this study, 2 main hypotheses have been put forward to explain the variation in childhood intelligence or school performance by season of birth. In the first hypothesis, it is suggested that it is due to school policy concerning school entry, whereas the second suggests that a seasonally patterned exposure such as temperature,…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, School Policy, Arithmetic

Weithorn, Corinne J.; Marcus, Maxine – Psychology in the Schools, 1985
Presents data from 2-year follow-up of 52 elementary students which indicated that in fourth grade, as in second grade, language ability, as measured by the Wechsler Kntelligence Scale for Children-Revised Vocabulary subtest, was more strongly related to Achievement Test scores among high-actives than among nonhigh-actives. (Author/NRB)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attention Deficit Disorders, Children, Elementary Education
Cutting, Alexandra L.; Dunn, Judy – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2006
This study investigates features of interaction between children that are linked to the development of understanding of mind, and asks whether these associations are evident across different relationships. Comparisons are made of the naturally occurring conversations in a sample of 43 4-year-old children, each observed with a sibling and with a…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Siblings, Speech Communication, Play
Crosbie, Sharon L.; Howard, David; Dodd, Barbara J. – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2004
This study examined spoken-word recognition in children with specific language impairment (SLI) and normally developing children matched separately for age and receptive language ability. Accuracy and reaction times on an auditory lexical decision task were compared. Children with SLI were less accurate than both control groups. Two subgroups of…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Word Recognition, Receptive Language, Language Aptitude
Jacobs, Ellen L. – 1998
The Kidtalk Interactive Diagnostic Test of Aptitude for Language Knowledge (KIDTALK) is an assessment instrument designed for identifying children with specific language impairments not associated with limited English proficiency. It is based on three principles: (1) a language disorder can be identified by testing an individual's potential for…
Descriptors: Children, Computer Assisted Testing, Diagnostic Tests, Identification

Karmiloff-Smith, Annette; And Others – Child Development, 1997
Examined morphosyntax in persons with Williams Syndrome (WS). Analyzed receptive language of English-speaking WS persons and grammatical gender assignment of French-speaking WS persons. Found within-domain dissociations in grammatical gender assignment across several sentence elements and difficulties in understanding embedded sentences, which…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Child Development, Children
Acone, Ilario – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1992
Discusses the administration of the Test di Attitudine Linguistica per Bambini (TALB) to students 7-9 years of age. Correlations between the TALB and achievement tests administered at the end of the course were very high. It is concluded that aptitude is a main factor in successful learning of a second language. (16 references) (LET)
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Aptitude Tests, Children, Educational Testing