Sentences with phrase «later language outcomes»

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In the Skelos case, jurors were told that an «official act» can encompass «acts customarily performed by a public official,» including those that further long - term goals or are only steps toward achieving some outcome — language that the Supreme Court later found wasn't specific enough.

They specifically measured the infants» ability to understand language at 7 months, and later the children's vocabulary outcomes at age 2.

More than 3000 hours of audio recording from 81 infants were collected between February 2010 and May 2012 as part of a language study designed to compare differences in language outcomes between late preterm and term infants.

Explore language and literacy development among language learners, with a focus on how early development is connected to later outcomes

Improving outcomes for ELLs continues to be an important topic in education and even more so as of late, as federal requirements under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) require an English language proficiency (ELP) indicator in all state plans.

Compounding this problem, children from low - income families, on average, begin kindergarten approximately a year behind their peers in preliteracy and language skills.106 This fluency gap widens as students continue in school and has a significant impact on economic success later in life.107 As a result, gains from high - quality preschool programs — including improved health, better social - emotional skills, and better cognitive outcomes — are particularly beneficial for children from low - income families.108

The first 5 years of life are critical for the development of language and cognitive skills.1 By kindergarten entry, steep social gradients in reading and math ability, with successively poorer outcomes for children in families of lower social class, are already apparent.2 — 4 Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.9, 10

Speed of word recognition and vocabulary knowledge in infancy predict cognitive and language outcomes in later childhood