ArticleJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2016
Stability of core language skill across the first decade of life in children at biological and social risk.
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- Talking Tots and the Terrible Twos: Early Language and Disruptive Behavior in Toddlers.Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP · 2018Article
- Stability of core language skill from infancy to adolescence in typical and atypical development.Science advances · 2018Article
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- Continuity and Stability in Development.Child development perspectives · 2017Article
- Long-Term Stability of Language Performance in Very Preterm, Moderate-Late Preterm, and Term Children.The Journal of pediatrics · 2017Article
- Stabilities of Infant Behaviors and Maternal Responses to Them.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesArticle
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backgroundCommand of language is a fundamental skill, a cornerstone of multiple cognitive and socioemotional aspects of development, and a necessary ingredient of successful adjustment and functioning in society. Little is known about the developmental stability of language in at-risk youth or which biological and social risk factors moderate stability.
methodsThis four-wave 10-year prospective longitudinal study evaluated stability of core language skill in 1,780 children in varying categories of biological and social risk in a multiage, multidomain, multimeasure, and multireporter framework.
resultsStructural equation modeling supported loadings of diverse age-appropriate measures of child language on single latent variables of core language skill at 15 and 25 months and 5 and 11 years, respectively. Core language skill was stable over the first decade of life; significant and comparable stability coefficients were obtained for children with diverse biological and social risks, including poor health, welfare status, teen motherhood, ethnicity, gender, birth order, and families that changed in income and maternal education over the study period; stability in language was strong even accounting for child nonverbal intelligence and social competence, maternal education and language, and the family home environment.
conclusionsCore language skill varies in stability with age but is robustly stable in children regardless of multiple biological and social risk factors.
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