BACKGROUND Strong associations between infant vocabulary and school-age language and literacy skills would have important practical and theoretical implications: Preschool assessment of vocabulary skills could be used to identify children at risk of reading and language difficulties, and vocabulary could be viewed as a cognitive foundation for reading. However, evidence to date suggests predict...

Background: expressive vocabulary of hearing impaired children. Aim: to verify the performance of a group of children with hearing impairment in an expressive vocabulary test. Method: the Language Test for Young Children ABFW Vocabulary was used in 21 children with moderately-severe to profound hearing losses. Children were divided in three groups according to their age: 3 to 4 years and 11 mon...

Previous studies have indicated that bilingualism may influence the efficiency of lexical access in adults. The goals of this research were (1) to compare bilingual and monolingual adults on their native-language vocabulary performance, and (2) to examine the relationship between short-term memory skills and vocabulary performance in monolinguals and bilinguals. In Experiment 1, English-speakin...

PURPOSE Research has identified English oral language proficiency as being critical for bilingual students' literacy development. This study examines developmental patterns and associations among oral vocabulary and narrative skills in a longitudinal sample of 24 Spanish/English bilingual children from low socioeconomic backgrounds so as to further our understanding of the development of oral p...

This article employs meta-analysis procedures to evaluate whether children with cochlear implants demonstrate lower spoken-language vocabulary knowledge than peers with normal hearing. Of the 754 articles screened and 52 articles coded, 12 articles met predetermined inclusion criteria (with an additional 5 included for one analysis). Effect sizes were calculated for relevant studies and forest ...

BACKGROUND Expressive vocabulary of hearing impaired children. AIM To verify the performance of a group of children with hearing impairment in an expressive vocabulary test. METHOD The Language Test for Young Children ABFW-Vocabulary was used in 21 children with moderately-severe to profound hearing losses. Children were divided in three groups according to their age: 3 to 4 years and 11 mo...

Relations between bilingual children’s patterns of conversational code-switching (responding to one language with another), the balance of their dual language input, and their expressive and receptive proficiency in two languages were examined in 115 21⁄2-year-old simultaneous Spanish-English bilinguals in the U.S. Children were more likely to code-switch in response to Spanish than English. Ch...

It is usually assumed that performance on non-verbal intelligence tests reflects visual cognitive processing and that aspects of working memory (WM) will be involved. However, the unique contribution of memory to non-verbal scores is not clear, nor is the unique contribution of vocabulary. Thus, we aimed to investigate these contributions. Non-verbal test scores for 17 individuals with intellec...

The Expressive and the Receptive One Word Picture Vocabulary test (EOWPVT & ROWPVT). (A combine pilot study and validation of the tests’ in normal Greek population aged from 12 years till 12 years and 11 months) Dionisios Tafiadis, Anastasios Mokas, Konstantinos Chorevas, Maria Tafiadi From 1 International Congress on Neurobiology and Clinical Psychopharmacology and European Psychiatric Associa...