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Ulker, Aydogan – Education Economics, 2016
Using a rich sample created from the Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children, we investigate the extent to which the relationship between body size at birth and early childhood cognitive skills is mediated by physical development indicators. Consistent with existing evidence from other countries, we find a significant relationship between body…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physical Characteristics, Birth, Physical Development
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Nys, Julie; Content, Alain; Leybaert, Jacqueline – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: Counting and exact arithmetic rely on language-based representations, whereas number comparison and approximate arithmetic involve approximate quantity-based representations that are available early in life, before the first stages of language acquisition. The objective of this study was to examine the impact of language abilities on the…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Numbers, Skill Development, Language Skills