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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Early language development"”.
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The importance of household environments for early language development of Head Start children
… fields including sociology, economics, and child development to determine how household relationship structures and related features of the home environment may be associated with child language outcomes. Beyond household relationship structures, other key features of the home environment included …
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Impacts of prenatal phthalate and bisphenol exposure on infant cognition and early language development
The neurodevelopmental impacts of prenatal exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals including bisphenols and phthalates are a growing public health concern. Bisphenols and phthalates are used in plastic consumer products, food and drink packaging and containers, personal care and household …
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Resting-state and task functional magnetic resonance imaging correlates of early language development in temporal and frontal lobe
Language is a critically important cognitive skill that enables both higher-order cognition andinteraction between individuals. Children face a daunting task of acquiring their first language through passive input, a task they do remarkably well in only a few short years. Linguistic processing is …
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Behaviour and Language Development in Infants at Risk for ASD: The Role of Early Attention Preferences and Early Language Development
… 1998). Thus, data on earlier social attention, language development, and ASD behaviours in children with ASD are limited. In this dissertation, I examine how early perceptual biases and ASD-like behaviours relate to language skills in a high-risk cohort of infant siblings of children with ASD …
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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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Modeling Similarities Among Autism Spectrum Patients Using Word Embeddings on Clinical Notes
… and cognitive or significant delays in early language development. Although we are seeing consistent research being done on understanding the genetic and biological aspects of ASD, diagnosing ASD patients is solely based on behavioral symptoms.</p> <p>In this thesis, we leverage …
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Temperament and Early Communication in Premature Children.
… links specific 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 …
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Evaluation of Wee Read Club+, an Early Speech and Language Intervention for Toddlers and Their Caregivers
Language delays in early childhood are prominent and are likely to negatively impact the child in a variety of areas including their future learning, relationships, and overall emotional development. Caregivers are known to be an integral component of children’s early language development, and …
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Investigating language exposure and screen time in the early home environment: A longitudinal analysis of a prospective cohort study
The acquisition of language is one of the most critical developmental milestones for children during their early years. Despite this, a significant number of children are starting school without the speech, language, or communication (SLC) skills required to facilitate their learning and …
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Early Language Learning and Teaching of Toddlers from Mexican Immigrant Homes
This two-part dissertation investigated the home language experiences and language development of 35 toddler-aged children from low-income Mexican immigrant families. These children represent a rapidly growing demographic in the United States. Because early language abilities are closely linked to …
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Sealbhú na Gaeilge ag naíonáin: early language acquisition of Irish
Speech and language therapy (SLT) services are coming under increased pressure to provide people living in linguistic minority communities with assessment and intervention in the language of the community in which the client lives. In Ireland, Irish, although a minority language, enjoys a positive …
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The birth of a word
… first two years of life is their entry into language, from first productive word use around 12 months of age to the emergence of combinatorial speech in their second year. What is the nature of early language development and how is it shaped by everyday experience? This work builds from the …
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An effectiveness study of a parent-child interaction therapy with children with Down syndrome
… which can impede on their child’s communication development. For that reason, parent-child interaction therapies have shown to be an effective form of early intervention for children with DS as it facilitates parent coaching while also addressing the specific communication needs of children with …
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Who Cares? How Caregivers Influence Communicative and Cognitive Development During Early Childhood
… AMC may influence communicative and cognitive development. This dissertation represents a novel, interdisciplinary approach to exploring the effects of AMC on early development before age two. Data were collected using questionnaires, in-lab assessments, daily diaries, and interviews from 102 …
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Towards Validation of South African Communicative Development Inventories: An object naming/identification task for South African English and Afrikaans
… Africa is a country rich in diversity, with language constituting a large proportion of this diversity as the country has eleven official languages with Afrikaans, isiXhosa and South African English (SAE) being the provincial languages of the Western Cape. Research on language acquisition in …