Does size matter? YES! According to Jessica Aguilar, Elena Plante, and Michelle Sandoval, size does matter when it comes to the set of different examples provided to young children during vocabulary instruction. They worked with 4-5-year-olds with specific language impairment. One group received vocabulary instruction of nouns with a single object corresponding to each word,…
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Children with Specific Language Impairment seem to benefit more than typically developing children from meaningful gestures during vocabulary instruction
Channel your inner Madonna and vogue for this one. Why? Because of Susanne Vogt and Christina Kauschke’s work on hand gestures. Working off of previous studies, they wanted to investigate the use of attention grabbing gestures (pointing with the index to prompt a child to listen) versus gestures that are reflective of word meanings for…
Verbal preschoolers on the autism spectrum struggle with identifying emotions of characters and retelling stories.
Once upon a time, in a land far far away (Australia to be exact) there were two researchers, Marleen Westerveld and Jaqueline Roberts, who set out to explore the magical land known as preschool. They wanted to investigate the narrative abilities of young children on the autism spectrum. Marleen, Jaqueline, and their fearless team ventured…
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