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Help us learn about how well eye gaze methods work to measure word knowledge in children who have severe motor and communication difficulties.
Codeswitching–when someone switches between two or more languages while speaking–is a very common phenomenon in people who are bilingual. ‘Spanglish’ is a well-known example of codeswitching as it is a colloquial term for speaking in a mix of Spanish and English.
Childhood trauma is pervasive and can have widespread negative influences on language development.
Learning language in early childhood occurs through interaction between children and their caregivers. It is a foundational process that allows children to participate in social interactions, learn from the world, and develop other essential skills such as literacy. Having a language delay or disorder is associated with greater risk for experiencing trauma and vice versa. Furthermore, children’s and caregivers’ trauma histories can impact their individual strengths and needs related to participation in early language intervention.
Recruiting parents of children with Down Syndrome who are between 1 and 24 months old.
Bilingual children can be flexible in the ways they learn two languages simultaneously.
Even through cute but unintelligible babbles, infants are hard at work learning how to become successful communicators.
The present study used an eye-gaze task to evaluate predictive language processing among 3- to 4-year-old autistic children (n = 34) and 1.5- to 3-year-old, language-matched neurotypical (NT) children (n = 34).
How do learners gather new information during word learning? One possibility is that learners selectively sample items that help them reduce uncertainty about new word meanings.
In an upcoming study in Current Biology, published online Aug. 16, researchers at the Arizona State University Department of Psychology and the Waisman Center report a factor that is important for language learning in children: the predictability of the learning environment.
