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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Language measures"”.
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Joint Engagement Behaviors in Preschoolers with Language Impairment
… to the sample population of preschoolers with language impairment (LI) by exploring patterns of joint engagement behaviors in this population. A second question asked if joint engagement behaviors were significantly related to performance on language measures. Following referral from local …
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Evaluation of a Screening Battery for Developmental Language Disorder
Students with developmental language disorder (DLD) have difficulty understanding and using oral language, and these difficulties negatively impact academic achievement. DLD has a prevalence of 7-8% of school-age students, yet research has shown that less than half of those students are receiving …
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Neuropsychological Outcome In Relation To Duration Of Early Orphanage Experience
… of cognitive domains, most consistently verbal measures and executive Functioning measures. The relationships with duration for measures requiring visual-spatial skills were more mixed and a visual reasoning task was found to significantly relate to duration but not a measure of visual memory or …
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Assessing early sociocognitive and language skills in young Saudi children
Children with early language delay form a heterogeneous group. Although a significant number will catch up and develop language in the normal range, some will continue to have difficulties with language. Predicting the outcome for these children represents a challenging task for clinicians. It has …
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Exploring language production, comprehension and naming in adolescents with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders
… of this study were i) to evaluate the domains of language production, comprehension and naming in children with moderate or heavy prenatal exposure to alcohol, and ii) to determine if these domains are a specific weakness in these children. The study compared 25 children with FASD to 25 typically …
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How Mind Wandering Relates to Reading in a Second Language
Both language and mind wandering have been strongly linked to reading, however there remains very scarce literature on their intersection. For instance, there are very few existing studies evaluating mind wandering in the context of reading in a second language in children, and none to our …
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The Relationship Between Pragmatic Language and Behavior Subtypes in Typically Developing Children
… the relationship between syntactic and pragmatic language and reticence, solitary-active passive withdrawal, solitary-passive withdrawal, prosocial skills, and likeability. The Children's Communication Checklist (CCC-2), a language checklist, and Teacher Behavior Rating Scale (TBRS), a behavior …
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Waves of Change: Longitudinal Growth Profiling of Bilingual (Spanish-English) Language Development
… the research literature supports the notion of language growth trajectories, primarily in monolingual English children, the shape and direction of English-language learners' (ELLs) language growth trajectories are largely unknown. The present study examined the shape of ELLs' language growth …
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Language and IQ in Children With Language Impairment
… to explore the potential relations between language and IQ in 30 children with language impairment. According to a modular model, this study hypothesized that semantic abilities would be substantially associated with IQ while morphosyntactic and phonological memory skills would remain …
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Relationship Between a Measure of Social and Emotional Development and Early Communication Development in Young Children with Cleft Palate
… behaviors 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 …
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Early Academic Performance in Children with Cleft Lip and/or Palate.
… preschool children have shown early speech and language deficits in children with cleft lip and/or palate (CLP). For some children, the deficits during kindergarten diminish as they begin school while some children continue to show delays. The purpose of this study was to determine if a …
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Indicators of Linguistic Processing Constraints in the Narratives of Individuals with High-Functioning Autism
… The purpose of this study was to compare the language production of adults with high-functioning autism (HFA) to that of age and Verbal IQ-matched controls with respect to speech disruptions and formulaic expressions, features which indicate linguistic processing challenges. Standard language …
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You Gotta Have Friends: An Analysis of Social Relations in Preschool Children With Speech and Language Impairment
… typically developing children, children with language impairment, and children with speech and language impairments. Specifically, this study investigated peer acceptance, friendship quantity, and friendship quality through the use of several measures and a variety of statistical analyses. …
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The impact of prematurity on language skills at school age
… Reading Project and included discourse-level language samples collected at three points in time, each a year apart. In addition, standardized test results were obtained for IQ, digit span, and global language ability. The language samples were analyzed to yield a number of semantic and …
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Oral Narration of African American Students in General and Gifted Education Programs
… feature, lexical diversity (NDW), and general language production (MLU, TNU, TNW). A culturally-fair standardized language assessment battery was administered including the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-4, Expressive Vocabulary Test-2, and the Diagnostic Evaluation of Language …
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Intensive English for Academic Purposes: A Curriculum Designed and Developed for Local English Language Learners Entering University
… systems have seen an enormous influx of language minority (LM) learners: 25% of the student body in Calgary’s K-12 systems have or have had EAL coding, and the proportion of local LM students in tertiary settings is even higher. Previous research has demonstrated that despite graduating …
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Social Outcomes of Students with Language Impairment: An Eight-Year Follow-up Study
This study re-examined the language and social skills of four females with language impairment who were initially studied eight years ago (Brinton, Fujiki, Montague, & Hanton, 2000; Fujiki, Brinton, Isaacson, & Summers, 2001). Language measures included the Clinical Evaluation of Language …
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Field Independence as a Predictor of Second Language Learning for Adult Esl Learners in the u.s. (United States)
… (1977) and his colleagues, has in recent second language (L2) research been thought to bear some significant relationship to a person's success or failure in learning a L2. The primary focus of this study was to explore, in a more direct and specific manner than in previous research, the degree …
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Understanding Cognitive Variability in Alzheimer’s Disease
… clinical presentation is assessed with cognitive measures. This inhibits clinical trial success and earlier diagnosis of individuals. Marrying the clinical presentation to the pathology of the disease has so far proved troublesome. This thesis will look at how cognitive measures can best capture …
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The Malleability of Cognitive Control and its Effects on Language Skills
… a role for cognitive control in a range of language processing tasks including syntactic ambiguity resolution and verbal fluency. Separate work demonstrates that EF abilities are malleable with extensive practice, such that training improvements transfer across domains to novel tasks that …
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