Sentences with phrase «on receptive language»

In doing so, they will be working on their receptive language skills.

Not exact matches

Typical strategies focus on developing sight word vocabulary, work with reading comprehension, speech and language therapy to address articulation, phonemic awareness, receptive language, expressive language, and other speech and language disorder symptoms.

Language and communication - with a young baby, you should be on the look out for receptive language skills.

My child was behind on his ability to speak, yet his receptive language skills at age three (what he understood) were those of a 7 - year - old.

Lucky for R, Julie is not so choked up about Perry's death, leaving her more receptive than you'd suspect to the attentions of her new gentleman zombie pal, who smuggles her onto an empty jetliner on the tarmac of an abandoned airport, advising her in grunts and groans that can barely be parsed as human language that she needs to stay on board with him for a few days, until the rest of his zombie buddies conveniently forget she's around.

The product supports both expressive and receptive language skills and has been amazingly successful for children on the autism spectrum and other children with special needs.

Students who attended the summer program before kindergarten performed significantly better on tests of kindergarten readiness in expressive vocabulary, letter - word identification, applied math problems, and writing, but not in social skills or receptive language.

Note that the first two items focus on receptive skills, though receptive and expressive oral language skills are often intertwined.

Responsible for taking data on steps individualized for children such as manding, receptive language, expressive language and social skills.

They also scored significantly lower on the Performance and Verbal Scales and the Verbal Language Development Scale, as well as showed deficits in mathematics and language tests, and in both receptive and expressive language (Augoustinos, 1987; Helm, Newport, Bonsall, Miller & Nemeroff, 2001; Kaplan et al., 1999).

Results from Table 2 assessing the impact of predictor variables on literacy outcomes show that SES and ECE attendance strongly predicated letter naming, p < 0.05; age, SES and ECE predicted fine motor skills, p < 0.01; None of the predictor variables significantly predicted receptive language while ECE and age

ECD programmes can take many forms, including promotion of good health and nutrition, support for safe and stimulating environments, protection from risks such as violence or abandonment, parenting support and early learning experiences, media, preschools and community groups.4 Poverty is the key underlying cause of poor child development; children living in poverty are exposed to many negative influences, including poor physical environments, inadequate nutrition, parental stress and insufficient cognitive stimulation.5 Undernutrition can influence brain development directly by affecting brain structure and function, or indirectly via poor physical or motor development, in addition to other pathways.6 — 8 Exposure to multiple co-occurring risks most likely contributes to greater disparities in developmental trajectories among children with differential exposure.9 — 12 This paper focuses on associations between specific aspects of children's physical environments — access to improved water and sanitation (W&S)-- and childhood development as measured by performance on a test of receptive language.

Children from low - income households lag behind their peers in language skills from early on, 2,12 and have been shown to develop vocabularies at slower rates than their peers from more economically advantaged households.7 Smaller receptive and productive vocabularies, in turn, predict children's later reading and spelling difficulties in school.8, 13

As expected, a significant difference was found between the samples on a measure of receptive language [Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test — Revised (PPVT - R); Dunn & Dunn, 1981; M = 92.49, SD = 18.49 for the SB group and M = 108.97, SD = 15.06 for the CG].