PURPOSE To compare the performance in the abilities of receptive and expressive language of children with cleft lip and palate with that of children without cleft lip and palate with typical 12 to 36-month chronological development. METHOD The sample consisted of 60 children aged 12 and 36 months: 30 with cleft lip and palate diagnosis and 30 without cleft lip and palate diagnosis with typica...

PURPOSE In this study, the authors sought to characterize the language phenotype of fragile X syndrome (FXS), focusing on the extent of impairment in receptive syntax, within-syndrome variability in those impairments in relation to gender, and the syndrome specificity of those impairments. METHOD The Test for Reception of Grammar, Version 2 ( Bishop, 2003), was used to examine the overall rec...

This research investigated the concurrent association between early reading skills and phonological awareness (PA), print knowledge, language, cognitive, and demographic variables in 101 5-year-old children with prelingual hearing losses ranging from mild to profound who communicated primarily using spoken language. All participants were fitted with hearing aids (n = 71) or cochlear implants (n...

The developmentally emerging phenotype of language and cognition in individuals with Down syndrome is summarized on the basis of the project's prior work. Identified are a) the emerging divergence of expressive and receptive language, b) the emerging divergence of lexical and syntactic knowledge in each process, and c) the emerging divergence within cognitive skills of auditory short-term memor...

Computerized dynamic assessment has been proposed as a solution to the practicality issues involved in ordinary dynamic assessment procedures. However, most of computerized dynamic assessment studies have addressed receptive skills (i.e., reading and listening). Responding to the scarcity of CDA studies of productive skills, the present study was an attempt to design and implement a computerize...

Neurophysiological mapping was used to study the effects of early postnatal removal of mystacial whiskers on the organization of cutaneous receptive fields (RFs) within the ventral posterior thalamus (VP) of rats. This sensory deprivation induced an extensive reorganization of the thalamus, as reflected in larger facial or continuous overlapping face-body RFs and a higher proportion of slowly-a...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to compare the Pediatric Evaluation of Disability Inventory (PEDI) and the Mullen Scales of Early Learning (MSEL) as measures of change in children who received early intervention services. METHODS Thirty-four children were stratified into 2 groups according to the presence of gross motor delay. The PEDI and MSEL were administered 3 times: at an average a...

The problem of study dealt with two aspects of children's language knowledge and Children's uses of pictures and objects when demonstrating . 4 their language skills. Forty-eight 4-and 5-year-olds wee, randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups, matched for SES, sex, and age. Subjects were individually tested with one of the four measures: language comprehension using objeCt stimuli; com...

Two studies examined the interactive eVect of receptive verbal intelligence measured by the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test and self-regulatory competencies measured in the delay of gratiWcation paradigm on boys’ aggression. Study 1 participants (ND 98) were middle school, low-income boys primarily ethnic minority. Participants for Study 2 (ND 59) were drawn from a treatment camp for boys from ...