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Maternal sensitivity to vocabulary development in specific language-impaired and language-normal preschoolers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Mary Ann Evans  and
Susanne Wodar
Mary Ann Evans*
Affiliation:
University of Guelph
Susanne Wodar*
Affiliation:
Peel Children's Centre, Brampton
*
Mary Ann Evans, Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario NIG 2W1, Canada. Email: evans@css.uoguelph.ca
Mary Ann Evans, Department of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario NIG 2W1, Canada. Email: evans@css.uoguelph.ca
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Abstract

This study examined mothers' accuracy in predicting the responses their children gave and the scores they achieved on two standardized vocabulary tests. Three groups of 16 mothers and their preschool children (specific language-impaired; age-matched, language-normal; and younger, language-matched, language-normal) completed the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised, Expressive One-Word Picture Vocabulary Test-Revised, and Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scales. Mothers overestimated their children's standardized receptive and expressive scores, with the exception that the mothers' estimates of the receptive vocabulary scores for language-impaired children did not differ from the actual test scores. Mothers of age-matched normals were best able to predict the labels their children used to name various pictured items. However, the overall estimates by mothers of language-impaired children were more accurate than those by mothers of language-normal children.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , July 1997 , pp. 243 - 256
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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