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Autism Spectrum Disorder Reporting in Lower Socioeconomic Neighborhoods
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Dickerson, Aisha S.; Rahbar, Mohammad H.; Pearson, Deborah A.; Kirby, Russell S.; Bakian, Amanda V.; Bilder, Deborah A.; Harrington, Rebecca A.; Pettygrove, Sydney; Zahorodny, Walter M.; Moyé, Lemuel A.; Durkin, Maureen; Slay Wingate, Martha – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2017
Utilizing surveillance data from five sites participating in the Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network, we investigated contributions of surveillance subject and census tract population sociodemographic characteristics on variation in autism spectrum disorder ascertainment and prevalence estimates from 2000 to 2008 using ordinal…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Socioeconomic Status, Multivariate Analysis
Risk for Poor Performance on a Language Screening Measure for Bilingual Preschoolers and Kindergarteners
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Pena, Elizabeth D.; Gillam, Ronald B.; Bedore, Lisa M.; Bohman, Thomas M. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2011
Purpose: This study documents the risk for language impairment in Latino children who had different levels of exposure to English and Spanish. Method: A total of 1,029 preschool- and kindergarten-age children were screened in the domains of semantics and morphosyntax in both Spanish and English. Parent report was used to document current exposure…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Impairments, Monolingualism, Bilingualism