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Direct linkE. Hill; S. Calder; C. Candy; G. Truscott; J. Kaur; B. Savage; S. Reilly – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background and Aims: Epidemiological studies have provided invaluable insight into the origin and impact of low language skills in childhood and adolescence. However, changing terminology and diagnostic guidelines have contributed to variable estimations of the prevalence of developmental language difficulties. The aim of this review was to…
Descriptors: Language Skills, Incidence, Developmental Delays, Children
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
Sheila Combs; Kristina N. Higgins – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
Picturebooks can play an important function in the development of language by promoting language acquisition and enriching the overall language development of the child. Reading picturebooks to children builds a number of developmental domains and fosters significant learning outcomes for future achievements. In this study, children's ability to…
Descriptors: Picture Books, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development, Toddlers
Elena López-Riobóo; Pastora Martínez-Castilla – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2024
Background: Down syndrome (DS) is a neurodevelopmental disorder of genetic origin with a cognitive-behavioural profile that distinguishes it from other syndromes. Within this profile, language difficulties are particularly marked, having been more studied in childhood than in adulthood. More generally, there is a paucity of research on the…
Descriptors: Young Adults, Adolescents, Spanish Speaking, Down Syndrome
Michele C. McDonnall; Anne Steverson; Jamie Boydstun; Frances Mary D'Andrea – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 2025
Introduction: The purpose of this study was to investigate factors associated with having proficient braille skill, with a specific interest in employment status. Method: Survey data were collected in 2021 and 2022 from 449 employed and unemployed people with low vision and people who are blind, all of whom were legally blind. Proficient braille…
Descriptors: Braille, Adults, Language Skills, Blindness
Steven K. Kapp; Juliette Gudknecht – Infant and Child Development, 2025
This narrative review analyzes the visual and auditory advantages that autistic people with speech divergence (A-SD) may have compared with autistic people without speech divergence (A-NoSD) or non-autistic people. Importantly, A-SDs' intelligence and communication skills are often underestimated in research and practice. Further, this paper…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Speech Impairments, Intelligence, Communication Skills
Félice van 't Wout; Christopher Jarrold – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2025
Language plays a fundamental role in enabling flexible, goal-directed behaviour. This study investigated whether the contribution of language to instruction encoding is modulated by the expression of autism traits, as measured by the Autism Spectrum Quotient (ASQ) questionnaire. Participants (N = 108) completed six choice reaction time tasks, with…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Reaction Time, Nonverbal Communication, Verbal Communication
Julia Hagge; Aina Appova – Reading Teacher, 2025
Despite proficient math skills, students may struggle to make sense of and solve story problems. While educators are encouraged to promote the use of comprehension strategies, students must first understand vocabulary at all levels as they work to make sense of and solve math story problems. Language skills are a prerequisite for schema…
Descriptors: Word Problems (Mathematics), Language Skills, Schemata (Cognition), Language Role
Marina Olujic Tomazin; Tomislav Radoševic; Iva Hrastinski – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: Despite the considerable scientific interest in researching the reading skills of the deaf population, most of these studies focus on reading comprehension (RC) at the word or sentence level. Such reading activates different underlying language processes than text-level reading, which is more akin to real-life reading literacy. The…
Descriptors: Deafness, Reading Comprehension, Language Skills, Correlation
Bahaa Hussein Mahamid; Elinor Saiegh-Haddad – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: The study tested macro- and microstructure narrative skills in kindergarten Arabic-speaking children with developmental language disorder (DLD) and in age-matched children with typical language development (TLD). Specifically, it compared narrative skills in the two groups of children in two story modes: storytelling in Spoken Arabic…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Arabic, Language Impairments, Developmental Delays
JeanMarie Farrow; Barbara A. Wasik; Annemarie H. Hindman; Michael J. Farrow – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2025
This study investigates translation strategies that enhance idea generation and linguistic construction in early childhood composing, focusing on high language-growth prekindergarten to first-grade classrooms. Our sample included 28 teachers from two under-resourced districts in the Northeastern United States, serving 324 children. Using an…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Strategies, Disadvantaged Schools, Early Childhood Teachers
Anna Fäldt; Evelien D'haeseleer; Amy De Roubaix – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2025
Background: Developmental coordination disorder is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by motor difficulties that significantly and persistently impact activities of daily living and participation. It has been suggested that children with (probable) developmental coordination disorder (pDCD) experience challenges in the domain of language,…
Descriptors: Developmental Delays, Neurological Impairments, Psychomotor Skills, Physical Disabilities
Download full textGregory V. Boerio; Karen H. Larwin – Journal of Organizational and Educational Leadership, 2025
The purpose of the current investigation is to analyze existing research examining the impact of play therapy on the development of language skills in young children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). As rates of ASD diagnoses continue to increase, families and educators are faced with making critical decisions regarding the selection and…
Descriptors: Play Therapy, Language Acquisition, Language Skills, Young Children
Weihua Zhao; Qin Li; Xiaolu Zhang; Xinwei Song; Siyu Zhu; Xiaojing Shou; Fanchao Meng; Xinjie Xu; Rong Zhang; Keith M Kendrick – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2024
This study investigated heterogeneity in language skills of children with autism and their relationship with different autistic social subtypes. Data from 90 autistic and 30 typically developing children were analyzed. Results showed that autistic social subtypes varied in language skill problems (aloof > passive > active-but-odd). There was…
Descriptors: Children, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Control Groups, Language Skills
Or Dagan; Carlo Schuengel; Marije L. Verhage; Sheri Madigan; Glenn I. Roisman; Kristin Bernard; Robbie Duschinsky; Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg; Jean-François Bureau; Abraham Sagi-Schwartz; Rina D. Eiden; Maria S. Wong; Geoffrey L. Brown; Isabel Soares; Mirjam Oosterman; R. M. Pasco Fearon; Howard Steele; Carla Martins; Ora Aviezer – Child Development, 2024
An individual participant data meta-analysis was conducted to test pre-registered hypotheses about how the configuration of attachment relationships to mothers and fathers predicts children's language competence. Data from seven studies (published between 1985 and 2014) including 719 children (M[subscript age]: 19.84 months; 51% female; 87% White)…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Attachment Behavior, Fathers, Mothers
