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The Correlation Between Expressive Language Delay In Children And Their Motor Abilities, Gail G. Cunningham May 1983

The Correlation Between Expressive Language Delay In Children And Their Motor Abilities, Gail G. Cunningham

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The purpose of the present study was to determine the correlation between expressive language delay in children and their gross and fine motor skills. Twenty children five years through six years, eleven months with a diagnosed expressive language delay, were selected to participate in the study. Each was screened on the basis of normal hearing, receptive vocabulary skills, motor functioning, and an expressive language delay of one year or more. After screening procedures, each child was administered the Preschool Language Scale-PLS (Zimmerman, et al., 1969) and the short form of the Bruininks-Oseretsky Test of Motor Proficiency-BOMP (Bruininks, 1978). …


Sex Differences In The Language Development Rates Of Two-Year Olds, Laurel A. Hickman Jan 1983

Sex Differences In The Language Development Rates Of Two-Year Olds, Laurel A. Hickman

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The purpose of this study was to examine and compare the language development rate of male and female children, 24 to 30 months of age, during a three month time period.