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Wafa A. Aljohani – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This study compared the use of delivering single instruction versus varied instructions when teaching three children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) new expressive labels. The present investigation utilized an adapted alternating treatment design nested into a multiple probe design, to teach participants to expressively label…
Descriptors: Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Teaching Methods, Expressive Language
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Trembath, David; Sutherland, Rebecca; Caithness, Teena; Dissanayake, Cheryl; Eapen, Valsamma; Fordyce, Kathryn; Frost, Grace; Iacono, Teresa; Mahler, Nicole; Masi, Anne; Paynter, Jessica; Pye, Katherine; Reilly, Sheena; Rose, Veronica; Sievers, Stephanie; Thirumanickam, Abirami; Westerveld, Marleen; Tucker, Madonna – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
Our aim was to explore insights from clinical practice that may inform efforts to understand and account for factors that predict spoken language outcomes for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder who use minimal verbal language. We used a qualitative design involving three focus groups with 14 speech pathologists to explore their views and…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Verbal Communication
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de Diego-Lázaro, Beatriz; Restrepo, María Adelaida – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2021
This case study described the oral expressive outcomes of five children with hearing loss who experienced prolonged auditory deprivation prior to participating in an auditory intervention. Expressive outcomes were measured by the number of spontaneous words and imitations. Visual analyses revealed that two of the five participants increased their…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Expressive Language, Hearing Impairments, Children
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Gandolfi, Elena; Traverso, Laura; Zanobini, Mirella; Usai, Maria Carmen; Viterbori, Paola – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2021
This study analyses the longitudinal relationship between early inhibitory control skills and subsequent emergent literacy. At Time 1, a sample of 50 typically monolingual Italian toddlers aged 28 to 36 months in their last year of day-care was assessed on expressive vocabulary and two inhibitory control measures, tapping specifically response…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Emergent Literacy, Preschool Children, Toddlers
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Philip Thierfelder; Gladys Tang; Jia Li – Deafness & Education International, 2024
This study followed the development of Hong Kong Sign Language (HKSL) proficiency in 31 deaf bimodal bilingual children (kindergarten through Primary 6) over two years. The Hong Kong Sign Language Elicitation Tool (HKSL-ET) was used at three time points to elicit the production of agreement, classifier, modal, negation, and wh-question structures.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sign Language, Language Proficiency, Deafness
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Kimberly Wolbers; Hannah Dostal; Leala Holcomb; Kelsey Spurgin – Grantee Submission, 2024
Writing is an essential element of literacy development, and language plays a central role in the composing process, including developing, organizing, and refining ideas. Language and writing are interconnected, making it paramount for educators to attend to the development of deaf students' language skills. In this quasi-experimental study, we…
Descriptors: Deafness, Students with Disabilities, Expressive Language, Language Skills
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Aljohani, Wafa A.; Javed, Asim; Ferguson, Julia L.; Cihon, Joseph H.; Milne, Christine M.; Leaf, Justin B. – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2022
This study compared simultaneous prompting with an error correction procedure for teaching three children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder expressive labels. Using a parallel treatment design nested within a multiple probe design, the researchers taught each participant how to expressively label pictures of sports teams or cartoon…
Descriptors: Prompting, Error Correction, Students with Disabilities, Autism
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Price, Kaitlyn M.; Wigg, Karen G.; Misener, Virginia L.; Clarke, Antoine; Yeung, Natalie; Blokland, Kirsten; Wilkinson, Margaret; Kerr, Elizabeth N.; Guger, Sharon L.; Lovett, Maureen W.; Barr, Cathy L. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2022
Developmental dyslexia (DD) is a common reading disability, affecting 5% to 11% of children in North America. Children classified as having DD often have a history of early language delay (ELD) or language impairments. Nevertheless, studies have reported conflicting results as to the association between DD-ELD and the extent of current language…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Language Impairments, Developmental Delays, Reading Difficulties
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Luo, Jianfen; Xu, Lei; Wang, Min; Xie, Dianzhao; Li, Jinming; Liu, Xianqi; He, Shuman; Spencer, Linda; Rost, Gwyneth; Guo, Ling-Yu – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: The aim of this study is to evaluate whether Mandarin-speaking children with cochlear implants (CIs) demonstrated early lexical composition similar to their hearing peers who were at the same vocabulary level and the extent to which children with CIs were sensitive to linguistic and conceptual properties when developing early lexicon.…
Descriptors: Infants, Expressive Language, Mandarin Chinese, Assistive Technology
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Nieto, Carmen; Campos, Ruth – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The development of copying behaviours of a group of infants from 9 to 15 months of age is analysed. These behaviours are classified according to their type (mimetic or imitated) and function (instrumental, social or hybrid). The function of the behaviours is derived from observable indicators linked to dyadic interaction. Mimetic behaviours are…
Descriptors: Imitation, Infants, Infant Behavior, Psychomotor Skills
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Dore, Rebecca A.; Liu, Xingfeiyue; Chaparro-Moreno, Leydi Johana; Justice, Laura M. – Journal of Early Childhood Research, 2022
This study examined the dimensionality of caregivers' child-directed talk and the association of child directed talk and children's language skills at age of 3 years in a sample of 63 low-SES dyads in low-SES homes. Exploratory factor analysis identified that caregivers' child directed talk is characterized by two dimensions: quantity and…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Interpersonal Communication, Language Skills, Preschool Children
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Kachergis, George; Marchman, Virginia A.; Dale, Philip S.; Mankewitz, Jessica; Frank, Michael C. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Measuring the growth of young children's vocabulary is important for researchers seeking to understand language learning as well as for clinicians aiming to identify early deficits. The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs) are parent report instruments that offer a reliable and valid method for measuring early…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Vocabulary Development, English, Spanish
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Pope, Ricky J.; Jones, Jeffrey N. – Youth & Society, 2022
This research explores the integration of creative and expressive arts in a young adult problem-solving court and the perceived benefits of participation. The Young Adult Diversion Court (YADC) was created to help young adults 17 to 20 years of age complete probation requirements. This qualitative study is informed by interpretive interactionism…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Problem Solving, Crime, Expressive Language
Lazaroff, Emma Esther Vieira – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Science learning is important for the well-being of individuals and society. Acquiring the knowledge necessary for success in science is not easy because science involves relational thinking, or the ability to abstract and generalize from similarities between concepts. Using relational words, or shared linguistic labels that identify commonalities…
Descriptors: Correlation, Science Instruction, Vocabulary Skills, Thinking Skills
Emily Rose Lake – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This dissertation asks what young children do with style at a time when their social and linguistic worlds begin to expand beyond the home, into the peer group. Grounded in a yearlong ethnography of a preschool classroom in the San Francisco Bay Area, I show how play moved gradually from indoors to outdoors as children got older. This shift…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Play, Peer Relationship
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