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Direct linkKarolina Wieczorek; Megan DeGroot; Heather Ganshorn; Susan A. Graham – Child Development, 2025
Research examining relations between language skills and social competence has yielded mixed findings. Three meta-analyses investigated links between language skills (overall, receptive, and expressive) and social competence in 2- to 12-year-old children. Data from 130 studies representing 62,120 children (M age at language assessment = 4.70…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Interpersonal Competence, Children, Receptive Language
Yan Li; Zhiwei Liu – Psychology in the Schools, 2025
Social anxiety is a prevalent issue among college students, often leading to poor academic and psychosocial adjustment. Expressive writing has shown promise as a brief, cost-effective intervention for improving mental and physical health. This study investigated the effects of a 15-min expressive writing session on the social performance of mildly…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Writing (Composition), Interpersonal Competence, Anxiety
Lue Shen; Anfeng Xu; Lindsay K. Butler; Karen Chenausky; Marc Maffei; Shrikanth Narayanan; Helen Tager-Flusberg – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: Conversational latency entails the temporal feature of turn-taking, which is understudied in autistic children. The current study investigated the influences of child-based and parental factors on conversational latency in autistic children with heterogeneous spoken language abilities. Method: Participants were 46 autistic children aged…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children, Dialogs (Language), Language Skills
Karolina Wieczorek; Rochelle Hentges; Suzanne Tough; Susan A. Graham – Developmental Science, 2025
This study investigated developmental pathways between early language and later social skills in a large, prospective cohort consisting of 3387 mother-child dyads. Mediational pathways were examined between parent-reported expressive language (at 2 years of age) and social skills (at 8 years of age), via core language and pragmatic language (at 5…
Descriptors: Learning Trajectories, Emergent Literacy, Language Acquisition, Interpersonal Competence
Audrey A. Rouhandeh; Christine Honsberger; Nathaniel A. Shanok; Erin Brooker Lozott; Tess Levy; Alexander Kolevzon; Joseph D. Buxbaum; Marlene Sotelo; Jennifer Foss-Feig; Paige M. Siper – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
As early identification of autism improves, there is a critical need for interventions to support the development of social communication skills in toddlers. Caregiver coaching and parental involvement is crucial for improving outcomes and providing children with adequate hours of planned active engagement. This pilot study assessed a 4-week…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Intervention, Interpersonal Competence, Communication Skills
Phillip Forman; Edward Khokhlovich; Andrey Vyshedskiy – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2023
The effect associated with the presence of seizures in 2 to 5-year-old autistic children was investigated in the largest and the longest observational study to-date. Parents assessed the development of 8461 children quarterly for three years on five orthogonal subscales: combinatorial receptive language, expressive language, sociability, sensory…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Young Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Seizures
Trembath, David; Sutherland, Rebecca; Caithness, Teena; Dissanayake, Cheryl; Eapen, Valsamma; Fordyce, Kathryn; Frost, Grace; Iacono, Teresa; Mahler, Nicole; Masi, Anne; Paynter, Jessica; Pye, Katherine; Reilly, Sheena; Rose, Veronica; Sievers, Stephanie; Thirumanickam, Abirami; Westerveld, Marleen; Tucker, Madonna – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2021
Our aim was to explore insights from clinical practice that may inform efforts to understand and account for factors that predict spoken language outcomes for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder who use minimal verbal language. We used a qualitative design involving three focus groups with 14 speech pathologists to explore their views and…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Children, Verbal Communication
Liu, Xueman Lucy; Lee, Wendy; Rolfhus, Eric; Hutchings, Teresa; Yao, Liqun; Xie, Jingqiu; Xu, Yaqing; Peng, Yongmei; Villiers, Jill de – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2023
Objective: This study was designed to produce a new parent-report measure, the Diagnostic Receptive Expressive Assessment of Mandarin-Infant Toddler Assessment of Communication and Language (DREAM-IT) in order to provide norms for the developmental skills of children aged 0-36 months in four areas: expressive language, receptive language,…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Infants, Toddlers, Expressive Language
Safi, Mohammed F.; Al Sadrani, Badriya; Mustafa, Ashraf – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2023
The use of interactive technologies has been demonstrated to enhance verbal and non-verbal communication, as well as the social interaction tendencies of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). We examined effects of using Virtual Voice Assistant (VVAs) in children with ASD with respect to two outcomes: speech skills and social interaction…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Verbal Communication
Shaqiri, Albulene; Gallopeni, Florim; Selmani, Erza – Early Child Development and Care, 2022
The importance of early childhood narrative skills in social relationships and children's internal capacity is of utmost interest to be studied. This aim of this study is to examine how the social group functioning, narrative skills, school success and non-verbal intelligence are interconnected. This is a mixed design study with a sample of 109…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Ability, Interpersonal Competence, Success, Correlation
Haebig, Eileen; Jiménez, Eva; Cox, Christopher R.; Hills, Thomas T. – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Children with autism spectrum disorder often have significant language delays. But do they learn language differently than neurotypical toddlers? We compared the lexical skills of 64 preverbal and minimally verbal children with autism spectrum disorder to 461 vocabulary-size-matched typically developing toddlers. We also examined social features…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Vocabulary Development, Toddlers
Hanne Nordvik Ona; Kenneth Larsen; Lena Victoria Nordheim; Kjetil Gundro Brurberg – Review Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2020
Background: Pivotal response treatment (PRT) is suggested to be an effective treatment for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Objectives: We aimed to compile evidence examining the effectiveness of PRT on social communication, social interaction, and repetitive behavior for children with ASD. Methods: We performed a systematic and…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children, Intervention, Program Effectiveness
Rebecca J. Collie – Educational Psychology, 2024
This investigation examined the role of students' social-emotional need satisfaction in relation to academic engagement and social-emotional skills. Among a sample of 501 secondary school students (and their parents/carers), several need satisfaction variables were examined: perceived social-emotional autonomy, perceived social competence,…
Descriptors: Needs, Satisfaction, Learner Engagement, Secondary School Students
Sidera, Francesc; Morgan, Gary; Serrat, Elisabet – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2020
Children who are deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) and born to hearing parents have delays in their social-cognitive development and in particular in their theory of mind (ToM). These delays are often attributed to the difficulties they encounter in acquiring age-appropriate linguistic and communicative skills. The present study asks whether this…
Descriptors: Young Children, Deafness, Hearing Impairments, Developmental Delays
Jiménez-Romero, Ma Salud; Fernández-Urquiza, Maite; Benítez-Burraco, Antonio – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: Chromosome 16p11.2 deletion syndrome (OMIM #611913) is a rare genetic condition resulting from the partial deletion of approximately 35 genes located at Chromosome 16. Affected people exhibit a variable clinical profile, featuring mild dysmorphisms, motor problems, developmental delay, mild intellectual disability (ID), socialization…
Descriptors: Genetic Disorders, Disabilities, Language Impairments, Communication Disorders
