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Anna Harvey; Helen Spicer-Cain; Nicola Botting; Lucy Henry – First Language, 2025
Spoken narrative skills are crucial to the social and academic success of young people; however, research indicates that this may be an area of challenge for autistic adolescents. Most previous studies have used narrative elicitation tasks that incorporate visual support, and little is known about how autistic adolescents perform on less…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Language Skills, Early Adolescents, Speech Communication
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Alaa Almohammadi; Khadeejah Alaslani; Haifa Alroqi; Yara Aljahlan; Roaa Alsulaiman; Aalya Albeeshi; Abdullah Murad; Fahad Alnemary – First Language, 2025
The development of language skills is critical to the academic success and overall well-being of children. Research shows that late talking, defined as delayed expressive language development in toddlers, negatively impacts future language and literacy skills. The early identification of children at risk of late talking can significantly improve…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Skills, Oral Language, Language Impairments
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Hovsepian, Alice – First Language, 2018
Four-year-old (n = 20) and five-year-old (n = 22) bilingual children were tested twice in six months on Armenian (minority language) and English (majority language) picture identification and picture naming tasks to examine receptive and expressive vocabulary growth in both languages. Parental education, Armenian/English language exposure, and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Predictor Variables, Bilingualism, Language Minorities