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Maryjo Flamm-Miller – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The problem addressed by this study was children's impeded oral language development when parents do not engage them in frequent conversational exchanges during the infant and toddler years. The purpose of the study was to explore parent behaviors and perceptions. Two questions guided the study: when do parents talk with their children? and how do…
Descriptors: Infants, Parents, Parent Attitudes, Oral Language
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Wray, Denise; Flexer, Carol – Volta Review, 2010
A collaborative team of faculty from The University of Akron (UA) in Akron, Ohio, and Kent State University (KSU) in Kent, Ohio, were awarded a federal grant from the U.S. Department of Education to develop a specialty area in the graduate speech-language pathology (SLP) programs of UA and KSU that would train a total of 32 SLP students (trainees)…
Descriptors: Federal Aid, Early Intervention, Preschool Education, Oral Language
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Dixon, Wallace E., Jr.; Salley, Brenda J. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2006
The authors' purpose in this study was to evaluate the role of attention, as a central dimension of temperament, in children's real-time acquisition of novel vocabulary. Environmental distractions were administered to 47 22-month-old children as they acquired novel vocabulary in a fast-mapping task. Two distraction conditions impeded novel word…
Descriptors: Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Language Acquisition, Attention, Personality Traits