PURPOSE The authors of this study examined relationships between measures of word and speech error variability and between these and other speech and language measures in preschool children with speech sound disorder (SSD). METHOD In this correlational study, 18 preschool children with SSD, age-appropriate receptive vocabulary, and normal oral motor functioning and hearing were assessed acros...

The primary focus of the study was to determine the relations among vocabulary and phonological awareness skills in two groups of preschool-aged children (n=118): those with typical vocabulary skills and those with deficits in expressive and receptive vocabulary. Additionally, we sought to determine if the patterns of relations among the variables differed by vocabulary status. Finally, given t...

This study investigates how children’s sensitivity to prosodic characteristics in speech is related to their processing of musical melody and rhythm, and how these are related to phonological awareness (PA), in a sample of 23 5-year-old pre-readers. Measures included non-word prosodic imitation, melody and rhythm discrimination, a battery of phonological awareness tasks, and general expressive ...

The  present  study  investigated  the  effects  of  three  methods  of  vocabulary  presentation,  i.e., picture,  song,  and  the  keyword  method  on  Iranian  EFL  learners'  vocabulary  recognition  and production.  The  participants  were  102  Iranian  lower-intermediate  EFL  learners  in  Zaban  Sara English language institute in Kermanshah. To make sure that they had no previous knowl...

PURPOSE To characterize the performance of students from the 5th year of primary school, with and without indicatives of reading and writing disorders, in receptive vocabulary and reading comprehension of sentences and texts, and to verify possible correlations between both. METHODS This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the institution (no. 098/13). Fifty-two students in...

OBJECTIVE This study examined rapid word-learning in 5- to 14-year-old children with normal and impaired hearing. The effects of age and receptive vocabulary were examined as well as those of high-frequency amplification. Novel words were low-pass filtered at 4 kHz (typical of current amplification devices) and at 9 kHz. It was hypothesized that (1) the children with normal hearing would learn ...

BACKGROUND Receptive vocabulary is an important measure for language evaluations. Therefore, norm-referenced receptive vocabulary tests are widely used in several languages. However, a receptive vocabulary test has not yet been normed for Modern Greek. AIMS To adapt an American English vocabulary test, the Receptive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test-II (ROWPVT-II), for Modern Greek for use wit...

This chapter explores variations in cognitive and social-emotional developmental outcomes among the 307 children who participated in the study. Cognitive development for infants and toddlers was assessed directly by researchers, and included early learning skills such as visual reception, fi ne motor, receptive vocabulary, and expressive vocabulary. For preschool-age children, cognitive develop...

We investigated the receptive language of adolescents and young adults with Down syndrome (n = 25) or fragile X syndrome (n = 19). We were interested in syndrome differences and gender differences within fragile X. Comparison of the syndromes and MA-matched typically developing children (n = 24) revealed that individuals with the syndromes differed in relative achievements across the domains of...