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Yarian, Marley; Washington, Karla N.; Spencer, Caroline E.; Vannest, Jennifer; Crowe, Kathryn – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2021
Predictors of expressive grammar were compared in formal and naturalistic assessment tasks for children with typically developing (TD) language and with Developmental Langauge Disorder (DLD). Standardized expressive language assessments were administered to 110 preschoolers. The parents of these children reported whether or not they were concerned…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Grammar, Preschool Children, Language Impairments
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van Alphen, Petra; Brouwer, Susanne; Davids, Nina; Dijkstra, Emma; Fikkert, Paula – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: This study compares online word recognition and prediction in preschoolers with (a suspicion of) a developmental language disorder (DLD) and typically developing (TD) controls. Furthermore, it investigates correlations between these measures and the link between online and off-line language scores in the DLD group. Method: Using the…
Descriptors: Word Recognition, Preschool Children, Developmental Delays, Language Impairments
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Imgrund, Caitlin M.; Loeb, Diane F.; Barlow, Steven M. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Preschoolers born preterm are at an increased risk for the development of language impairments. The primary objective of this study was to document the expressive language skills of preschoolers born preterm through 2 assessment procedures, language sample analysis, and standardized assessment. A secondary objective was to investigate the…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Preschool Children, Premature Infants, Grammar
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Weiler, Brian; Schuele, C. Melanie; Feldman, Jacob I.; Krimm, Hannah – Grantee Submission, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate, over 2 separate school years, the school-district-wide failure rate of kindergartners on a screener of grammatical tense marking--the Rice Wexler Test of Early Grammatical Impairment (TEGI) Screening Test (Rice & Wexler, 2001)--composed of past tense (PT) and third-person singular (3S)…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Impairments, Kindergarten, School Districts
Imgrund, Caitlin – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Children born preterm constitute one of the largest populations of children at risk for the development of language impairments. A little over one in ten pregnancies result in a preterm birth and approximately 25% of these children go on to experience subsequent difficulties with language (CDC, 2015; Foster-Cohen, Friesen, Champion, &…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, At Risk Persons, Language Impairments, Language Acquisition
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Reiterer, Susanne M., Ed. – English Language Education, 2018
This book presents original, empirical data from quantitative and qualitative research studies in the field of language learning aptitude, ability, and individual differences. It does so from the perspectives of Second Language Acquisition, psychology, neuroscience and sociolinguistics. All studies included in the book use a similar and uniform…
Descriptors: Language Aptitude, Multilingualism, Memory, Personality Traits