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Direct linkThanh Tran Thi Minh; Hien Thi Thu Nguyen; Quang Nhat Nguyen; Thuy Do Thi – British Journal of Special Education, 2024
This study investigates the levels of social language and vocabulary characteristics of three- to six-year-old children with autism in Vietnam. The research is based on analysis of the developmental assessment reports of 151 children with autism, and 42 parents' reports on their children's vocabulary (recorded using the Child Word Inventory form).…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Preschool Children, Young Children
Max R. Freeman – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2023
Purpose: Children's vocabulary and syntactic skills vary upon school entry in depth and breadth, persistently influencing academic performance, including reading. Enhancing early communicative abilities through multisensory, playful, and conversational experiences is essential and will benefit children's school readiness. This study investigated…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Skills, Vocabulary Development, Syntax
van der Wilt, Femke; van der Veen, Chiel; van Kruistum, Claudia; van Oers, Bert – Early Education and Development, 2020
Rejection by peers has devastating effects on children's social-cognitive development. As language difficulties have been found to be one of the underlying causes of peer rejection, the present study focused on the relation between these two variables. Specifically, this study was the first to test a hypothesized model connecting children's level…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development, Receptive Language
Bialecka-Pikul, Marta; Filip, Anna; Stepien-Nycz, Malgorzata; Kus, Katarzyna; O'Neill, Daniela K. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: To date, there is no tool for assessing early pragmatic development of Polish-speaking children. This study aimed to adapt to Polish a standardized parent report measure, the Language Use Inventory (LUI; O'Neill, 2009, in order to enable cross-cultural comparisons and to use the LUI-Polish to screen for pragmatic development in children…
Descriptors: Polish, Pragmatics, Measures (Individuals), Parent Attitudes
Miller, Meghan; Young, Gregory S.; Hutman, Ted; Johnson, Scott; Schwichtenberg, A. J.; Ozonoff, Sally – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2015
Background: We evaluated early pragmatic language skills in preschool-age siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and examined correspondence between pragmatic language impairments and general language difficulties, autism symptomatology, and clinical outcomes. Methods: Participants were younger siblings of children with ASD…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Language Skills, Preschool Children, Siblings
Curenton, Stephanie M. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2015
This study provides qualitative and quantitative evidence of how an emotion explanation task can reflect African American preschoolers' pragmatic skills. We used an emotion explanation task to assess pragmatic skills among 19 children (aged 3-5 years) related to (1) engaging in conversational turn-taking, (2) answering "Wh-" questions,…
Descriptors: African American Children, Preschool Children, Emotional Response, Pragmatics
Honig, Alice Sterling – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
How to help babies and young children right from birth to become competent in talking as well as emergent literacy is illustrated by research findings as well as with specific clinical stories. Both kinds of knowledge can serve to galvanize parents and teachers to increase awareness of infant and preschool language development and the crucial role…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Caregiver Role
Semantic Abilities in Children with Pragmatic Language Impairment: The Case of Picture Naming Skills
Ketelaars, Mieke Pauline; Hermans, Suzanne Irene Alphonsus; Cuperus, Juliane; Jansonius, Kino; Verhoeven, Ludo – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2011
Purpose: The semantic abilities of children with pragmatic language impairment (PLI) are subject to debate. The authors investigated picture naming and definition skills in 5-year-olds with PLI in comparison to typically developing children. Method: 84 children with PLI and 80 age-matched typically developing children completed receptive…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Preschool Children, Semantics, Pragmatics
Fernández, Camila – First Language, 2013
Emerging pragmatic language skills involve social, cognitive and linguistic abilities, including children's awareness of the conversational partner's mental states. The present study investigated the relation between children's theory of mind (ToM) and features of pragmatic language skills assessed through narrative discourse. One hundred and…
Descriptors: Pragmatics, Theory of Mind, Preschool Children, Social Cognition
