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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"expressive vocabulary"”.
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Increasing expressive vocabulary through non-traditional instruction
<p>This study examined vocabulary teaching techniques. Its major purpose was to discover ways of teaching vocabulary to students that motivate them to use the words and allow them to understand and use these words appropriately. This study utilized a qualitative approach, examining instruction …
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Predicting expressive vocabulary change in young children growing up in Ireland
During the preschool years expressive vocabulary development is highly variable, which makes it difficult for healthcare and education professionals to identify children with delays that require early intervention services. Previous research has highlighted the need to identify a reliable set of …
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Multisensory Integration in Early Toddlerhood: Interrelationships with Context, SES and Expressive Vocabulary
… into the potential changes that occur in MSI and expressive vocabulary for 68 toddlers between 18 months and 24-months. Finally, this relationship was investigated in the context of SES. At 18-months, toddlers demonstrated significant matching for nonsocial conditions, and at 24-months toddlers …
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Language acquisition in Setswana speaking infants aged 8 to 18 months
… gauges a child's gestures and receptive and expressive vocabulary. This study aimed to adapt and pilot the first Setswana CDI for infants aged eight to 18 months living in Botswana. The original USCDI was adapted by three linguists who are mother-tongue Setswana speakers. Thereafter, we …
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Does Infants' Socially-guided Attention Uniquely Predict Language Development?
… skills, joint attention behaviors, infants' expressive/receptive language (current), emerging communication abilities at 16- and 17-month-old (time 1); expressive/receptive language (subsequent) at 18- 19-month-old (time 2). Infants' sustained attention was measured by their attention control …
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A Quasi-Experiment Examining Expressive and Receptive Vocabulary Knowledge of Preschool Head Start Children Using Mobile Media Apps
… mobile media apps to increase the receptive and expressive vocabulary development of preschool children living in economically disadvantaged communities. Children and teachers in four Head Start classrooms participated in the quasi-experimental study, which included an eight-week intervention in …
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Early Androgen Exposure, Gender, and Disorder-Relevant Traits
… months of age can negatively predict subsequent expressive vocabulary size (how many words a child can say) during toddlerhood. Notably, males typically have a smaller expressive vocabulary than do females during toddlerhood and a small expressive vocabulary is predictive of subsequent language …
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Behaviour and Language Development in Infants at Risk for ASD: The Role of Early Attention Preferences and Early Language Development
… smaller in SIBS-A. SIBS-TD demonstrated higher expressive vocabulary than SIBS-A at 18 months. Vocabulary size correlated with early speech preferences, suggesting that a preference for ID speech early in development may facilitate later expressive language. Finally, infants’ preference for …
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Effects of Computerized Storybooks on Early Literacy Development of Preschool Children with Weak Self-Regulation Skills
… Form (CTPQ-SF), Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test (PPVT),Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening for Preschoolers (PALS-PreK) - the Print and Word Awareness subtest, an expressive vocabulary posttest, and a story retelling posttest. Both universally designed methods were effective …
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Understanding the Linguistically Vulnerable: Exploration of Early Literacy Skills of ELL Students in Calgary
… Canadian elementary charter schools. Students’ expressive vocabulary was also assessed using a norm-referenced measure. Writing samples were Factors such as vocabulary, printing quality, and spelling skills will were considered in this study. It was determined that vocabulary was a significant …
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Prevalence of Autistic-Like Traits in General Population Bilingual and Monolingual Samples and Their Effect on Cognition and Metaphor Processing/Interpretation
… found that higher age, socioeconomic status, and expressive vocabulary improve metaphor interpretation. Additionally, girls outperformed boys. Finally, language status and ALTs level had no effect on metaphor interpretation, indicating that background factors and core language skills (such as …
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Effects of Dialogic Reading in a Special Day Class
… participants to increase their learning, use of expressive vocabulary, and the complexity, use of multiword phrases.</p>
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Exploring Early Gesture and Language Development Trends in Sesotho-Speaking Infants (8 to 18 Months)
… are at risk of language delays and disorders. Vocabulary breadth, in particular, strongly predicts literacy, cognitive reasoning, emotional regulation, social interaction, interpersonal relationships and long-term outcomes. Research in this field has historically been dominated by studies …
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The relationship between aggression and communication in students with developmental disabilities
… correlation between physical aggression and expressive vocabulary in language (Dionne, Tremblay, Boivin, Laplante, & Perusse, 2003). The current study investigated a link between high intensity behaviors (aggression) and the degree of impairment within the communication domain. Archival data …
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Vocabulary Assessment: A Comparison Between Clinical And Academic Measures
<p>Researchers have shown vocabulary knowledge to be highly linked to reading comprehension, and ultimately a strong predictor of academic success. Therefore, students' vocabulary skills should be carefully monitored and assessed as the demands of education increase. </p> <p>The purpose of this …
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The role of relationship quality in vocabulary acquisition : evidence from Spanish-speaking preschoolers
… 2007), which influence children's subsequent vocabulary skills. For dual language learners, skills in both languages are a reflection of the quantity and quality of linguistic input received in each language as well as the opportunities for practice and feedback during social interactions …
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An Investigation of the Additive Benefits of Parent Dialogic Reading Techniques in Older Preschool Children
… school year participated. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Fourth Edition (PPVT-4) and Expressive Vocabulary Test, Second Edition (EVT-2) were administered pre-intervention and post-intervention implementation. Consistent with multiple baseline design, all students received weekly progress …
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The form of emotive design
… the objects they want to design using familiar vocabulary, but may not be able to draw on expert design skills to transform this meaning into the medium of form. This thesis explores the physical design language encoded into objects and asks: can a CAD tool that uses descriptive adjectives as an …
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The Impact of Birth Order on Language Development in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Simplex Families
… an older, typically-developing sibling, on vocabulary and social language development in autistic youth. Participants included 1338 first-borns and 1049 second-borns (M age = 9.03 years, SD = 3.57; 86.4% male) with diagnoses of Autistic disorder, Aspergers, or PDD-NOS from the Simons Simplex …
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Oral Narration of African American Students in General and Gifted Education Programs
… was administered including the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-4, Expressive Vocabulary Test-2, and the Diagnostic Evaluation of Language Variation-Screening Test to more fully describe language skill. All 50 students and 15 teachers were interviewed to better understand perceptions of good …
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