Modeling socioeconomic status effects on language development.

2013 ◽  
Vol 49 (12) ◽  
pp. 2325-2343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. C. Thomas ◽  
Neil A. Forrester ◽  
Angelica Ronald
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Language Development

scholarly journals Parents should keep talking to boost infant language development

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Low Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Language Skills ◽  
First Year ◽  
Low Socioeconomic ◽  
Infant Language Development ◽  
Starting School ◽  
Infant Language ◽  
First Year Of Life

Children from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds tend to have poorer language skills when starting school than those from higher SES backgrounds. Now, data shows that increasing the amount of “contingent talk”— whereby a caregiver talks about objects that an infant is directly focusing on — within an infant’s first year of life promotes a wide vocabulary later in infancy.

A parent-directed language intervention for children of low socioeconomic status: a randomized controlled pilot study

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 366-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANA L. SUSKIND ◽  
KRISTIN R. LEFFEL ◽  
EILEEN GRAF ◽  
MARC W. HERNANDEZ ◽  
ELIZABETH A. GUNDERSON ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Low Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Home Visiting ◽  
Child Language ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Home Based

AbstractWe designed a parent-directed home-visiting intervention targeting socioeconomic status (SES) disparities in children's early language environments. A randomized controlled trial was used to evaluate whether the intervention improved parents' knowledge of child language development and increased the amount and diversity of parent talk. Twenty-three mother–child dyads (12 experimental, 11 control, aged 1;5–3;0) participated in eight weekly hour-long home-visits. In the experimental group, but not the control group, parent knowledge of language development increased significantly one week and four months after the intervention. In lab-based observations, parent word types and tokens and child word types increased significantly one week, but not four months, post-intervention. In home-based observations, adult word tokens, conversational turn counts, and child vocalization counts increased significantly during the intervention, but not post-intervention. The results demonstrate the malleability of child-directed language behaviors and knowledge of child language development among low-SES parents.

Identifying Pathways Between Socioeconomic Status and Language Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 285-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Pace ◽  
Rufan Luo ◽  
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek ◽  
Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Language Development

scholarly journals Preschool Language Outcomes following Perinatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy in the Age of Therapeutic Hypothermia

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 627-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric M. Chin ◽  
Srishti Jayakumar ◽  
Ezequiel Ramos ◽  
Gwendolyn Gerner ◽  
Bruno P. Soares ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Language Development ◽  
Therapeutic Hypothermia ◽  
Expressive Language ◽  
Brain Mri ◽  
Receptive Language ◽  
Relative Strength ◽  
Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy ◽  
Language Deficits ◽  
Ischemic Encephalopathy

Early studies following perinatal hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE) suggested expressive language deficits and academic difficulties, but there is only limited detailed study of language development in this population since the widespread adoption of therapeutic hypothermia (TH). Expressive and receptive language testing was performed as part of a larger battery with 45 children with a mean age of 26 months following perinatal HIE treated with TH. Overall cohort outcomes as well as the effects of gender, estimated household income, initial pH and base excess, and pattern of injury on neonatal brain MRI were assessed. The cohort overall demonstrated expressive language subscore, visual-reception subscore, and early learning composite scores significantly below test norms, with relative sparing of receptive language subscores. Poorer expressive language manifested as decreased vocabulary size and shorter utterances. Expressive language subscores showed a significant gender effect, and estimated socioeconomic status showed a significant effect on both receptive and expressive language subscores. Initial blood gas markers and modified Sarnat scoring did not show a significant effect on language subscores. Binarized MRI abnormality predicted a significant effect on both receptive and expressive language subscores; the presence of specific cortical/subcortical abnormalities predicted receptive language deficits. Overall, the language development profile of children following HIE in the era of hypothermia shows a relative strength in receptive language. Gender and socioeconomic status predominantly predict expressive language deficits; abnormalities detectable on MRI predominantly predict receptive language deficits.

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