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Showing 1 to 20 of 53 for “"receptive language"”.
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Conservation and Expressive/Receptive Language Abilities in Normal and Disabled Readers
… the relationship between conservation expressive/receptive language abilities in normal and disabled readers. Subjects were 24 seven year old males and females, 12 good readers and 12 disabled readers. SRA reading achievement scores were obtained from each subject's permanent record. The Test of …
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The Effects of Early Education on the Receptive Language Development of Kindergarten Children
… if there was a significant difference in the receptive language of children who had attended an early childhood education center, and those who had not. Subjects were 64 kindergarten students from an elementary school on a military base in the southeast. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test- …
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The Effects of an Intensive Language Development Program on the Expressive and Receptive Language of Kindergarten Children
… examine the effect that an intensive program of language development had on the expressive and receptive language of kindergarten children. The design of this study was a one group pretest, posttest design. This study consisted of approximately twenty-five kindergarten children from a rural …
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A Short-Term Longitudinal Study of the Relationship Between Classroom Quality and Child Language and Academic Outcomes in a State-Funded Pre-Kindergarten Program
… between classroom process quality and child language and academic outcomes from the beginning of the pre-kindergarten year to the beginning of the kindergarten year for one cohort of children participating in a state-funded pre-kindergarten program in South Carolina. Data for my study were …
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Home Literacy Environment, the Quality of Mother-Child Book Reading Interactions, and Taiwanese Children's Early Literacy Development
… literacy development including the children's receptive language ability (as measured by the Chinese version of PPVT_R), the children's emergent reading behaviors (as assessed in a solo reading task), and children's print concepts (as assessed using a portion of Clay's (1982) Concepts about …
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Child-Centered Group Play Therapy with Children with Speech Difficulties
… speech problems in the areas of articulation, receptive language, and expressive language. A second purpose was that of determining the efficacy of child-centered group play therapy in improving self-esteem, positive social interaction, and in decreasing anxiety and withdrawal behaviors among …
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The Relationship of Television Viewing at Home and Toddlers' Language Skills
… toddlers' television viewing at home and their language skills. Two other variables, family socioeconomic status and mothers' levels of education, were included in order to examine if these two variables and the amount of toddlers' TV viewing at home were related to receptive and expressive …
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Does Infants' Socially-guided Attention Uniquely Predict Language Development?
… attention behaviors uniquely predicted emerging language abilities. This longitudinal study examined attention regulation skills, joint attention behaviors, infants' expressive/receptive language (current), emerging communication abilities at 16- and 17-month-old (time 1); expressive/receptive …
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The norming of the "Evaluation du language Oral" and the prevalence of speech and language disorders in pre-school aged children from Yaoundé (Cameroon)
Research suggests that speech and language disorders are among the most prevalent childhood disabilities in many countries. Identification and intervention for children with communication disorders are sought at an early stage, to avoid the consequences of untreated childhood speech and language …
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Construction and Preliminary Validation of the interRAI 0-3 Developmental Domains
… reliability and validity of the Expressive and Receptive Language and the Gross Motor Scales as well as examine the outcomes of an at-risk subsample of preterm children. Method. Participant data included children and families (n = 640) from 17 health agencies and childcare centres in Ontario, …
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Developmental outcome in preschoolers: Interrelations among maternal depression, perceived social support, and child's age of entry into Head Start
… to predict both child working memory skill and receptive language ability, and high levels of maternal depressive symptomology were found to predict child social skills. In addition, exploratory analyses were conducted to examine gender differences in the relations between variables when girls …
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A Descriptive Analysis of the Relationship of Reading Performance and Selected Characteristics of Pupils with Special Educational Needs
… psychological and sociological factors including language and teacher expectations may cause reading difficulty. The literature further suggests that there is a need to assess these factors in individual learners so that reading instruction can be designed for children to experience success in …
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Exploring the Development of Counterfactual Reasoning in Chinese Preschool Children
… development have focused on children speaking languages that apply subjunctive forms to directly signal counterfactuality (e.g., English). Little has been known about the development of counterfactual reasoning in children speaking Chinese, which does not use subjunctive forms to indicate …
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RELIABILITY OF PROXY RESPONDENTS WHO REPORT COMMUNICATIVE PARTICIPATION FOR PERSONS WITH APHASIA
… techniques, and using unrepresentative language scores. The CPIB may be used with PWA with intact receptive language to assess communicative participation but may not be appropriate for individuals with impaired receptive language. Preliminary results indicate that further evaluation of …
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RELIABILITY OF PROXY RESPONDENTS WHO REPORT COMMUNICATIVE PARTICIPATION FOR PERSONS WITH APHASIA
… techniques, and using unrepresentative language scores. The CPIB may be used with PWA with intact receptive language to assess communicative participation but may not be appropriate for individuals with impaired receptive language. Preliminary results indicate that further evaluation of …
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Identification of Effective Strategies to Promote Language in Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants
… involvement are essential for the development of language in young children. However, hearing parents of deaf children face unique challenges in providing appropriate stimulation and language input to their deaf children. To date, few studies have determined which types of input are best. This …
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A comparison of language, demographics, and word reading as an estimate of premorbid functioning
… most parsimonious combinations of measures of receptive language, expressive language, word reading, and demographic variables would estimate intellectual functioning for the purpose of exploring measures that could be used in estimation of premorbid functioning. Intellectual functioning was …
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Effects of a Specialized Early Intervention for Children with Severe Language Impairment
Children with language impairment experience difficulties in grammar, vocabulary, and phonological skills, and they are susceptible to developing learning disorders without intervention (Scarborough, 1990; Tallal, Ross,&Curtiss, 1989; Van der Lely&Stollwerk, 1996). Intervention is imperative to …
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Are better communicators better readers? An exploration of the connections between narrative language and reading comprehension
The association between receptive language skills and reading comprehension has been established in the research literature. Even when the importance of receptive skills for reading comprehension has been strongly supported, in practice lower levels of skills tend to go unnoticed in typically …
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Individual differences in rural children's video word learning
… household income, maternal education, and receptive language skills. Preschool-aged children between the ages of 3 and 5 years and their parent or guardian were recruited from two vastly different populations, one rural and one non-rural. The parent completed a demographic form including …
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