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Frédéric Thériault-Couture; Célia Matte-Gagné; Annie Bernier – Developmental Science, 2025
Executive functions (EFs) emerge in the first years of life and are essential for many areas of child development. However, intraindividual developmental trajectories of EF during toddlerhood and their associations with ongoing development of language skills remain poorly understood. The present three-wave study examined these trajectories and…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Toddlers, Child Development, Language Acquisition
Matthew Arnold; Rebecca Netson; Andrey Vyshedskiy – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
Prefrontal synthesis (PFS) is a component of constructive imagination. It is defined as the process of mentally juxtaposing objects into novel combinations. For example, to comprehend the instruction "put the cat under the dog and above the monkey," it is necessary to use PFS in order to correctly determine the spatial arrangement of the…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Language Acquisition, Children, Executive Function
Michele Regalla; Hilal Peker; Marisa Macy – Foreign Language Annals, 2024
This exploratory study examines the relationship between executive functioning (EF) skills and the development of first (L1) and second language (L2) skills of preschool students. The participants of this study are enrolled in a French immersion program offered at an inclusion school combining students with disabilities (special needs) and those…
Descriptors: French, Immersion Programs, Preschool Children, Executive Function
Ana Alejandra Espinosa-Mojica; Carmen Varo Varo – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: Language studies on populations with rare genetic disorders are limited. Hence, there is little data on commonly found or expected developmental linguistic traits and cognitive mechanisms that may be impaired. Based on the hypothesis that there is a close connection between language and cognition and the relevance of specific genetic…
Descriptors: Genetic Disorders, Child Development, Children, Language Skills
Jiao, Xiaoyan; Zhang, Anqi; Bu, Xiaomei – Metacognition and Learning, 2023
Metacognition plays an important role in the development of young children. Recent studies have found that metacognition and executive function are independent but closely related. In this study, 55 children aged 4-5 years were selected as subjects, and a short-term longitudinal design was used to analyze the relationships among metacognition,…
Descriptors: Young Children, Metacognition, Mathematics Skills, Language Skills
Anna J. Esbensen; Emily K. Schworer; Nancy R. Lee; Emily K. Hoffman; Kaila Yamamoto; Deborah Fidler – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2024
This study evaluated the appropriateness of scoring the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function--Preschool (BRIEF-P) using age-equivalent scores generated from multiple measures of cognition and language among school-age children with Down syndrome (DS). Subscale T scores for 95 children with DS were contrasted using standard scoring on…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Preschool Tests, Down Syndrome, Behavior
Leah L. Kapa – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: The goal of this study was to examine potential mediators of the relationship between developmental language disorder (DLD) status and executive function performance. Method: Participants included preschoolers, of whom 80 met the diagnostic criteria for DLD and 103 were categorized as having typical language abilities. Participants'…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Language Impairments, Developmental Delays, Executive Function
Masek, Lillian R.; Weiss, Staci Meredith; McMillan, Brianna T. M.; Paterson, Sarah J.; Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick; Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy – Developmental Science, 2023
High-quality communicative interactions between caregivers and children provide a foundation for children's social and cognitive skills. Although most studies examining these types of interactions focus on child language outcomes, this paper takes another tack. It examines whether communicative, dyadic interactions might also relate to child…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Interaction, Executive Function, Child Language
Romeo, Rachel R.; Flournoy, John C.; McLaughlin, Katie A.; Lengua, Liliana J. – Developmental Science, 2022
Childhood socioeconomic status (SES) is related to disparities in the development of both language and executive functioning (EF) skills. Emerging evidence suggests that language development may precede and provide necessary scaffolding for EF development in early childhood. The present preregistered study investigates how these skills co-develop…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Language Acquisition, Executive Function, Preschool Children
Miller, Kerry; Prokasky, Amanda; Roberts, Holly; McMorris, Carol; Needelman, Howard – Infant and Child Development, 2023
This study explores the extent to which medical and sociodemographic variables and cognitive and language skills are associated with executive function (EF) skills in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) graduates at 24 months of adjusted age. We explored cognitive, language, and EF skills in 42 NICU graduates who participated in a NICU follow-up…
Descriptors: Neonates, Executive Function, Risk, Scores
Sabol, Terri J.; McCoy, Dana Charles; Gonzalez, Kathryn; Hanno, Emily; Busby, Andrea; Wei, Wendy; Downer, Jason – Journal of Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2023
The current study examined the contexts in which a preschool teacher professional development intervention was more versus less effective in improving student outcomes. We used a fixed intercept, random coefficient (FIRC) modeling approach to explore the contextual characteristics inside and outside school walls that predicted differential…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Faculty Development, Program Effectiveness, Preschool Education
Adrià Rofes; Magdalena Beran; Roel Jonkers; Mirjam I. Geerlings; Jet M. J. Vonk – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: In this study, we aim to understand whether and how performance in animal fluency (i.e., total correct word count) relates to linguistic levels and/or executive functions by looking at sequence information and item-level metrics (i.e., clusters, switches, and word properties). Method: Seven hundred thirty-one Dutch-speaking individuals…
Descriptors: Indo European Languages, Language Skills, Executive Function, Animals
Sarah Coughlan; Jean Quigley; Elizabeth Nixon – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: To investigate the language environments experienced by preterm-born infants, this study compared the linguistic and interactive features of parent--infant conversations involving 2-year-old preterm- and term-born infants. The study also explored how mother-infant and father-infant conversations may be differentially affected by…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Interpersonal Communication, Toddlers
Taylor, Ellie K.; Abdurokhmonova, Gavkhar; Romeo, Rachel R. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2023
Childhood socioeconomic status (SES) is one of the strongest predictors of student reading outcomes, and these disparities have persisted for decades. Relatedly, two underlying skills that are required for successful reading--oral language and executive function (EF)--are also the two neurocognitive domains most affected by SES. In this review, we…
Descriptors: Socioeconomic Status, Predictor Variables, Reading Achievement, Language Skills
Pietro Spataro; Mara Morelli; Sabine Pirchio; Sara Costa; Emiddia Longobardi – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
This study investigated the executive functions (EF) of preschool children and their associations with emotional, linguistic, and cognitive skills, using parent and teacher reports. A total of 130 children aged 34 to 71 months participated. The preschool version of the Behavior Rating Inventory of Executive Function (BRIEF-P) was completed by both…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Executive Function, Language Skills, Thinking Skills