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Bocerean, Christine; Canut, Emmanuelle; Musiol, Michel – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2012
The aim of this research is to compare the types and functions of repetitions in two different corpora, one constituted of verbal interactions between adults and multiply-handicapped adolescents, the other between adults and young children of the same mental age as the adolescents. Our overall aim is to observe whether the communicative…
Descriptors: Mental Age, Linguistics, Disabilities, Young Children
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Baranek, Grace T.; David, Fabian J.; Poe, Michele D.; Stone, Wendy L.; Watson, Linda R. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2006
Background: This study describes a new caregiver-report assessment, the Sensory Experiences Questionnaire (SEQ), and explicates the nature of sensory patterns of hyper- and hyporesponsiveness, their prevalence, and developmental correlates in autism relative to comparison groups. Method: Caregivers of 258 children in five diagnostic groups…
Descriptors: Mental Age, Incidence, Autism, Caregivers
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Rieder, Carolyn; Cicchetti, Dante – Developmental Psychology, 1989
Examined the relation between a history of maltreatment and cognitive control functioning in two groups of preschool and early school-age maltreated and nonmaltreated children. Maltreated children showed developmentally impaired cognitive control functioning on a number of tasks. (RH)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Age Differences, Aggression, Child Abuse