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1983

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Motor ability in children

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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). …