Socioeconomic status (SES) differences in language development are ubiquitous, but existing research has yet to wrestle with how language gaps reflect (a) differences in relevant concepts for communication, (b) comprehension strategies to access meanings, and (c) production practices that express social identity. In child-directed input, parents us...
Peer reviewed: True / More and more members of the autistic community and the research field are moving away from the idea that there will be a single biological or cognitive explanation for autistic characteristics. However, little is known about the complex dynamic processes that could explain why early difficulties in the language and motor doma...
Published in Autism : the international journal of research and practice
More and more members of the autistic community and the research field are moving away from the idea that there will be a single biological or cognitive explanation for autistic characteristics. However, little is known about the complex dynamic processes that could explain why early difficulties in the language and motor domain often go hand-in-ha...
Published in Developmental science
Previous research suggests that exposure to accent variability can affect toddlers' familiar word recognition and word comprehension. The current preregistered study addressed the gap in knowledge on early language development in infants exposed to two dialects from birth and assessed the role of dialect similarity in infants' word recognition and ...
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between two concepts, language development/language acquisition and inclusion. We examined a number of different articles and different studies made by different scientists, with the purpose of examining whether or not the two concepts in fact actually had a scientific relationship. Furtherm...
Förväntat kunskapsbidrag Examensarbetet förväntas bidra med en bättre förståelse och en ökad kunskap om hur det språkutvecklande arbetet för flerspråkiga elever i grundskolan ser ut och vilka framgångsfaktorer det finns för språkutvecklande undervisning med flerspråkiga elever. Syfte och frågeställningar Syftet med studien är att utifrån ett specia...
Background. Disfluency is a multifactorial concept that can be linked to several of the language production levels, both in typical and atypical populations. In children, the language system is still developing and few studies have explored disfluency patterns. In Typical Development (TD) in particular, studies have shown discrepancies according to...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Although excessive childhood anxiety is recognised as a significant public health, education and socioeconomic concern, the specific effects of such anxiety on language development and working memory, particularly visual working memory, are relatively unknown. Thus, this study aimed to examine parent-reported trait anxiety, parent-reported function...
Published in International journal of speech-language pathology
Purpose: Vocabulary relates to overall language proficiency and is important for academic success. Word definition (WD) tasks can be used to assess vocabulary depth and definition skills. We investigate monolingual and bilingual children's performances on a WD task, and how bilingualism, level of parental education, school characteristics (proporti...
Published in Developmental science
The number of older siblings a child has is negatively correlated with the child's verbal skills, an effect that is well known in the literature. However, few studies have examined the effect of older siblings' sex, of the age gap between siblings, of having foreign-speaking parents, as well as the mediating role of parental interaction. Using data...
