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Gravel, Judith S.; Wallace, Ina F. – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1992
Examination of 23 4-year-old children classified otitis media negative or positive during their first year of life indicated that otitis positive children required a more advantageous signal-to-competition ratio for sentence intelligibility, compared to otitis-negative peers. No intergroup differences were found in receptive or expressive language…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Auditory Tests, Cognitive Ability, Expressive Language
Vance, H. Robert; Stone, J. E. – Diagnostique, 1990
The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised assesses standard American English receptive vocabulary in individuals, both handicapped and nonhandicapped, ages 2 to 40. This paper describes the test's administration, summation of data, standardization, reliability, and validity. (JDD)
Descriptors: Adults, Elementary Secondary Education, Language Skills, Language Tests
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Qualls, Constance Dean; Harris, Joyce L. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1999
To test the language experience hypothesis, the comprehension of high-, moderate-, and low-familiarity idioms was examined in 24 African-American and 24 European-American fifth graders. Results indicated a significant effect of group on idioms rated as low-familiarity. The influence of social and regional culture on idiom comprehension is…
Descriptors: Black Students, Cultural Differences, Cultural Influences, Grade 5
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Chapman, Tammy; Stormont, Melissa; McCathren, Rebecca – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 1998
Landau-Kleffner syndrome is characterized by difficulty in receptive or expressive language, abnormal electroencephalograms, and seizures. This article describes the primary and secondary characteristics of children with this syndrome and offers educators a framework for intervention techniques. These include using predictable language, creating…
Descriptors: Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Congenital Impairments, Elementary Secondary Education, Expressive Language
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Grace, Caroline A. – Modern Language Journal, 2000
Investigated the effect of first-language (L1) translations on males and females who are beginning French students emerged in a computer assisted language learning (CALL) lesson. Specifically, examined whether access to L1 translations affected performance differently on receptive vocabulary tests and whether there were differences in how much…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, French, Introductory Courses, Language Tests
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Tyler, Ann A.; Lewis, Kerry E. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2005
This article explores selected phonological measures, their relationships to one another, and how groups differentiated by such measures change over time during intervention. Relationships among global quantitative measures of severity (percent consonants correct), measures of variability/consistency, and measures of whole-word complexity and…
Descriptors: Phonology, Syllables, Word Recognition, Control Groups
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Feldman, Heidi M.; Dale, Philip S.; Campbell, Thomas F.; Colborn, D. Kathleen; Kurs-Lasky, Marcia; Rockette, Howard E.; Paradise, Jack L. – Child Development, 2005
The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI; Dale, 1996; Fenson et al., 1994), parent reports about language skills, are being used increasingly in studies of theoretical and public health importance. This study (N=113) correlated scores on the CDI at ages 2 and 3 years with scores at age 3 years on tests of cognition and…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Public Health, Receptive Language, Predictive Validity
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Gillum, Heather; Camarata, Stephen – Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2004
The purpose of this review is to discuss the importance of treatment efficacy research in language comprehension in MR/DD populations. Although receptive language deficit is an integral part of most MR/DD typologies, there have been relatively few studies evaluating the effectiveness or efficacy of treatment for this condition. Recently, there has…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Program Effectiveness, Receptive Language, Language Impairments
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Cornelissen, Katri; Laine, Matti; Renvall, Kati; Saarinen, Timo; Martin, Nadine; Salmelin, Riitta – Brain and Language, 2004
We tracked the evolvement of naming-related cortical dynamics with magnetoencephalography when five normal adults successfully learned names and/or meanings of unfamiliar objects. In all subjects, the learning of new names was associated with pronounced cortical effects. The learning effect was of long latency and emerged as a change of activation…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Diagnostic Tests, Cognitive Measurement, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Wilkinson, Krista M.; Mazzitelli, Kim – Journal of Child Language, 2003
This paper explores "fast mapping", one of several processes that have been proposed to be involved in the rapid vocabulary expansion observed in the preschool years. An adaptation of a receptive word matching task examined how well children retained a just-mapped relation between word and referent when some information was later missing.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Mapping, Child Language, Vocabulary Development, Preschool Children
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Philofsky, Amy; Hepburn, Susan L.; Hayes, Athena; Hagerman, Randi; Rogers, Sally J. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2004
Linguistic and cognitive profiles were examined in 18 children with autism and 18 children with fragile X syndrome (mean ages = 34 months). State-of-the-art diagnostic procedures for autism symptom identification were administered. Eight children with fragile X met criteria for autism. Comparison of linguistic and cognitive profiles (autism,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Autism, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Young Children
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Christopher J. Lonigan; Jason L. Anthony; Brenlee G. Bloomfield; Sarah M. Dyer; Corine S. Samwel – Journal of Early Intervention, 1999
The effects of 2 preschool-based shared-reading interventions were evaluated with 95 children, ages 2- to 5-years, from low-income families. Language skills of the children were below age-level as measured by standardized tests. Children were pretested and randomly assigned to 1 of 3 conditions: (a) no-treatment control, (b) typical shared-reading…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, High Risk Students, Listening Comprehension, Low Income
Johnson, Ruth; And Others – 1982
The parent's guide reviews normal speech and language development and discusses ways in which parents of young children with language problems facilitate that development. Terms such as speech, communication, and receptive and expressive language are defined, and stages in receptive/expressive language development are charted. Implications for…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Expressive Language, Hearing Impairments, Language Acquisition
Becker, Ann DeVaney – 1987
Post structural reader theories--i.e., theories that focus on the reader/viewer rather than the text as the creator of meaning--are considered in this paper in terms of their application to educational media research. Some key concepts of reader theories are defined as follows: (1) reading is the process of creating meaning while viewing an…
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Educational Media, Educational Television, Encoding (Psychology)
Marcell, Michael M.; Croen, Pamela S. – 1989
This study probed whether or not a distinctive Down syndrome (DS) pattern could be found in the realm of vocabulary comprehension. Groups of 29 each of DS adolescents, non-DS mentally retarded (MR) adolescents, and nonretarded children were statistically matched on receptive vocabulary ability; DS and MR groups were also matched for chronological…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Downs Syndrome, Elementary Secondary Education
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