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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Communicative Development"”.
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An Analysis of Down Syndrome Children and the Importance of Their Cognitive and Communicative Development
… at the issues of cognitive and communication development in children with Down Syndrome. With recent advances in neuroscience, educators need to understand brain development in order to utilize methods in dealing with education problems that occur with this population. Therefore this paper …
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Freedom For Speech : Outdoor Play And Its Potential For Young Children's Conceptual, Linguistic And Communicative Development
… for children’s conceptual, linguistic and communicative development.
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Towards the Development of an IsiXhosa Adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory for Toddlers
… pilot for the adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) into Southern African languages. 1 The adaptation stems from the growing dissatisfaction regarding the dearth of speech and language assessments and therapeutic tools currently available in South Africa for …
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Towards Validation of South African Communicative Development Inventories: An object naming/identification task for South African English and Afrikaans
… A recent project in South Africa has led to the development of Communicative Development Inventories (MB-CDIs) in several of the country's official languages. MB-CDIs are parent-report questionnaires about young children's language acquisition. It is challenging to validate these MB-CDIs in the …
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Early Lexical and Grammatical Development of Xitsonga Spoken in Giyani, Limpopo Using the Adapted Xitsonga MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory: Toddlers Form A Preliminary Study
… aimed to describe the early lexical and grammar development of Xitsonga-speaking children, aged 16 to 32 months. The study objectives were to describe 1) the outcomes of the adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (MB-CDI) for Xitsonga speakers 2) the relationship …
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Toddlers and Technology: An Examination of how the Digital Surround may be Related to Prototypic Vocabulary Development and Social Interactions during Play
… children may be related to prototypic vocabulary development and Social interactions during play. Twenty-six families in the Northwest Arkansas region with children between 15-36 months of age participated in the study. Thirteen children attended a campus preschool, six children attended a …
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Exploring Early Gesture and Language Development Trends in Sesotho-Speaking Infants (8 to 18 Months)
The period of early language development constitutes a fundamental phase in children’s later language and communication skills, underpinning their ability to express thoughts, regulate emotions and engage socially. Although this process often appears to unfold naturally, many children are at risk …
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Exposing a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to more than one language in the home : is it beneficial?
… skills were assessed using the Mac-Arthur Bates Communicative Development Inventory: Words and Gestures (Fenson, Marchman, Thal, Dale & Reznick, 2007) and the Maltese adaptation of the Mac-Arthur Bates Communicative Development Inventory: Words and Sentences (Gatt, 2010). An interview was also …
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The EIIOS Task: Executive Function and Word Learning at 18-months
… executive functioning (EF) ability and language development in the latter half of the second year. Fifty-five typically developing 18- month-olds were brought into the lab. The elicited imitation with inappropriate object substitution (EIIOS) task was used as a developmentally sensitive measure …
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Temperament and Early Communication in Premature Children.
… temperament characteristics to early language development. Thus, temperament may provide a way to identify premature children who are at increased risk. The first purpose of this study was to determine if temperament characteristics of premature children are the same as full-term children when …
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Relationship Between a Measure of Social and Emotional Development and Early Communication Development in Young Children with Cleft Palate
… and correlation with speech and language development in young children with cleft palate and/or lip. Twenty-eight participants aged 14-35 months with nonsyndromic cleft palate and or lip were included in this study. The Infant-Toddler Social and Emotional Assessment (ITSEA) was used to …
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An investigation of the language and communication characteristics observed in children with Smith-Magenis syndrome
… analyzed in comparison to the MacArthur Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI). Results identified commonalities and differences in both language and communication among participants, as well as establishing the LUI as an accurate protocol for determining the speech and language …
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A grounded theory study exploring Indian travel Instagrammers' communication behaviors
… distinct types of Instagrammers, stages of communicative change, and adaptive strategies such as curated use of outfits, technology, niche branding, and destination selection to shape audience perception. These evolving strategies influence not only how travel Instagrammers present …
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Cognition and communication in children/adolescents with cochlear implant
… how hearing with a CI influences cognitive and communicative development and there is a need for development of methods for assessment. The general purpose of this thesis was to explore the interaction between cognition (working memory capacity) and phonological processing and more complex …
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Auditory pathway responses to parametrized vowels in autism spectrum disorders
… symptoms, including delays in social and communicative development. A cluster of symptoms concentrate on speech and language development, especially manipulation of non-verbal information conveyed in prosody. It is largely unknown whether this is due to functional or structural differences …
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Infant imitation: Detecting risk in the first year with PediaTrac™
… has pervasive associations with social and communicative development. However, few methods have been developed to measure this construct in typically developing infants, and even fewer are available for atypical populations, such as infants born preterm. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a …
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Sealbhú na Gaeilge ag naíonáin: early language acquisition of Irish
… developing children, let alone assessment or developmental pathways for speech and language therapists to work with. Furthermore, the study of Irish can make a valuable contribution to cross-linguistic research as it has structures which are very different to English such as a VSO word order, …
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Repetitive and Stereotyped Behaviors from Age 2 to Age 4: A Look at the Development of High- and Low-Level Repetitive Behaviors in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
… evidence frequency and severity of RRBs in early development in children with ASD. In the current study, we examined developmental differences in the frequency and severity of RRBs in children with ASD (n = 109) compared to children with developmental delays (DD) (n= 34). Participants were …
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The use of word-learning principles in young monolingual and bilingual children
… production was undertaken using the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory (Fenson et al., 1991), as well as a Quebec French adaptation developed specifically for this study. All children in this study were also administered a fast mapping task. A visual perspective-taking task was …
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Language acquisition in Setswana speaking infants aged 8 to 18 months
… southern Africa are adapting the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (CDI) for local languages. The CDI is an assessment tool completed by parents, which gauges a child's gestures and receptive and expressive vocabulary. This study aimed to adapt and pilot the first Setswana CDI …
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