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Home Literacy Environment of Pre-School Children with Intellectual Disabilities
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van der Schuit, M.; Peeters, M.; Segers, E.; van Balkom, H.; Verhoeven, L. – Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 2009
Background: For pre-school children, the home literacy environment (HLE) plays an important role in the development of language and literacy skills. As there is little known about the HLE of children with intellectual disabilities (ID), the aim of the present study was to investigate the HLE of children with ID in comparison with children without…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Family Environment, Language Skills, Mental Age
The Relationship of Play Behavior to Cognitive Ability in Developmentally Disabled Preschoolers.
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Power, Thomas J.; Radcliffe, Jerilynn – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1989
The study found low to moderate correlations between cognitive and play measures for over 200 preschool children classified as mildly retarded, moderately retarded, borderline, and language disordered. Retarded and borderline groups achieved similar mental ages on both measures while language disordered and atypical groups demonstrated marked…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Correlation, Developmental Disabilities, Language Handicaps
Concurrent Validity of the Mayes Motor-Free Compilation (MMFC) for Assessing Mental Ability in Children with Physical Impairments.
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Pelco, Lynn E.; Sarpolis, Deborah L. – International Journal of Disability, Development and Education, 1999
This study investigated the concurrent validity of the Mayes Motor Free Compilation (MMFC) using the mental scale of the Bayley Scales of Infant Development (BSID) as the criterion variable with 50 typically developing preschool-aged children. Results indicated that the MMFC and the BSID scores were significantly and positively correlated.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, Concurrent Validity