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Visual Attention and Academic Performance in Children with Developmental Disabilities and Behavioural Attention Deficits
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Kirk, Hannah E.; Gray, Kylie; Riby, Deborah M.; Taffe, John; Cornish, Kim M. – Developmental Science, 2017
Despite well-documented attention deficits in children with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), distinctions across types of attention problems and their association with academic attainment has not been fully explored. This study examines visual attention capacities and inattentive/hyperactive behaviours in 77 children aged 4 to…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit Disorders, Intellectual Disability
Accurate or Assumed: Visual Learning in Children with ASD
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Trembath, David; Vivanti, Giacomo; Iacono, Teresa; Dissanayake, Cheryl – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2015
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are often described as visual learners. We tested this assumption in an experiment in which 25 children with ASD, 19 children with global developmental delay (GDD), and 17 typically developing (TD) children were presented a series of videos via an eye tracker in which an actor instructed them to…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Visual Perception, Developmental Delays
Gender Differences in Cognitive Development
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Ardila, Alfredo; Rosselli, Monica; Matute, Esmeralda; Inozemtseva, Olga – Developmental Psychology, 2011
The potential effect of gender on intellectual abilities remains controversial. The purpose of this research was to analyze gender differences in cognitive test performance among children from continuous age groups. For this purpose, the normative data from 7 domains of the newly developed neuropsychological test battery, the Evaluacion…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Cognitive Tests, Foreign Countries, Gender Differences
Discrepancy between Parental Reports of Infants' Receptive Vocabulary and Infants' Behaviour in a Preferential Looking Task
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Houston-Price, Carmel; Mather, Emily; Sakkalou, Elena – Journal of Child Language, 2007
Two experiments are described which explore the relationship between parental reports of infants' receptive vocabularies at 1 ; 6 () or 1 ; 3, 1 ; 6 and 1 ; 9 () and the comprehension infants demonstrated in a preferential looking task. The instrument used was the Oxford CDI, a British English adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates CDI (Words &…
Descriptors: Infants, Language Acquisition, Child Development, Receptive Language
Seeing, Acting, Understanding: Motor Resonance in Language Comprehension
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Zwaan, Rolf A.; Taylor, Lawrence J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2006
Observing actions and understanding sentences about actions activates corresponding motor processes in the observer-comprehender. In 5 experiments, the authors addressed 2 novel questions regarding language-based motor resonance. The 1st question asks whether visual motion that is associated with an action produces motor resonance in sentence…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Sentences, Visual Stimuli, Receptive Language
Language Development and Learning to Read: The Scientific Study of How Language Development Affects Reading Skill
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McGuinness, Diane – MIT Press (BK), 2005
Research on reading has tried, and failed, to account for wide disparities in reading skill even among children taught by the same method. Why do some children learn to read easily and quickly while others, in the same classroom and taught by the same teacher, don't learn to read at all? In "Language Development and Learning to Read", Diane…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Speech, Reading Research, Psycholinguistics