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Lei, Lin; Pan, Jinger; Liu, Hongyun; McBride-Chang, Catherine; Li, Hong; Zhang, Yuping; Chen, Lang; Tardif, Twila; Liang, Weilan; Zhang, Zhixiang; Shu, Hua – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2011
Background: Early prediction of reading disabilities in Chinese is important for early remediation efforts. In this 6-year longitudinal study, we investigated the early cognitive predictors of reading skill in a statistically representative sample of Chinese children from Beijing. Method: Two hundred sixty-one (261) native Chinese children were…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Phonological Awareness, Prediction, Word Recognition
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Diken, Ibrahim H. – Early Child Development and Care, 2009
Turkish mothers' self-efficacy beliefs and their interactional behaviors with their children with language delays are described and explored. Participants included 19 mother-child dyads. Mothers' interaction with their children with language delays was videotaped for 30 minutes in a free-play context. Regarding mothers' interactional behaviors,…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Delayed Speech, Mothers, Self Efficacy
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Lee, Eliza Carlson; Rescorla, Leslie – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
The use of four types of psychological state words (physiological, emotional, desire, and cognitive) during mother-child play sessions at ages 3, 4, and 5 years was examined in 30 children diagnosed with delayed expressive language at 24-31 months and 15 age-matched comparison children with typical development. The children's mean length of…
Descriptors: Mothers, Social Development, Expressive Language, Matched Groups
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Buschmann, Anke; Jooss, Bettina; Rupp, Andre; Dockter, Sonja; Blaschtikowitz, Heike; Heggen, Iris; Pietz, Joachim – Developmental Medicine & Child Neurology, 2008
The aim of this study was to evaluate if a diagnostic work-up should be recommended for 2-year-old children with developmental language delay (LD), or if the widely chosen "wait and see" strategy is adequate. Children with LD were identified in paediatric practices during routine developmental check-ups using a German parent-report…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Early Intervention, Delayed Speech, Autism
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Chappell, Gerald E.; Johnson, Gayl A. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1976
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Development, Communication Disorders, Delayed Speech