Levers for language growth: Characteristics and predictors of language trajectories between 4 and 7 years

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  McKean, Cristina ^a,b   Mensah, Fiona K ^b,c,e   Eadie, Patricia ^c   Bavin, Edith L ^d   Bretherton, Lesley ^b,c,e   Cini, Eileen ^b   Reilly, Sheena ^b,f  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; READING; SPEECH DISORDER; TELEVISION VIEWING; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC POLICY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INCOME; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LITERACY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PSYCHOLOGY, CHILD; PUBLIC POLICY; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84941966156     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0134251     Document Type: Article

References (46)

1. Duncan G, Dowsett C, Claessens A, Magnusson K, Huston A, Klebanov P, et al. (2007) School readiness and later achievement. Developmental Psychology 43:1428-1446. PMID: 18020822
2. Catts HW, FeyME, Tomblin JB, Zhang XY (2002) A longitudinal investigation of reading outcomes in children with language impairments. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research 45:1142-1157.
3. Johnson CJ, Beitchman JH, Brownlie EB (2010) Twent-year follow-up of children with and without speech-language impairments: Family, educational, occupational, and quality of life outcomes. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 9:51-65.
4. Tomblin B (2008) Validating diagnostic standards for specific language impairment using adolescent outcomes. In: Norbury CF, Tomblin B, Bishop DVM, editors. Understanding developmental language disorders: from theory to practice. Hove: Psychology Press.
5. Durkin K, Conti-Ramsden G (2010) Young people with specific language impairment: A review of social and emotional functioning in adolescence. Child Language Teaching and Therapy 26:105-121.
6. Law J, Rush R, Schoon I, Parsons S (2009) Modeling developmental language difficulties from school entry into adulthood: Literacy, mental health, and employment outcomes. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 52:1401-1416. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388 (2009/08-0142) PMID: 19951922
7. Schoon I, Parsons S, Rush R, Law J (2010) Children's language ability and psychosocial development: A 29-year follow-up study. Pediatrics 126:e73-e80. doi: 10.1542/peds.2009-3282 PMID: 20587683
8. Law J, Todd L, Clark J, Mroz M, Carr J (2013) Early language delays in the UK. London: Save the Children.
9. Tomblin JB, Records NL, Buckwalter P, Zhang X, Smith E, O'Brien M. (1997) Prevalence of specific language impairment in kindergarten children. Journal of Speech & Hearing Research 40:1245-1260.
10. Field F (2010) The Foundation Years: preventing poor children becoming poor adults. In: Cabinet Office, editor. London: HM Government.
11. National Research Council and Institute of Medicine (2000) From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development. In: Shonkoff JP, Phillips DA, editors. Washington, D. C.: The National Academies Press.
12. Reilly S, Wake M, Ukoumunne OC, Bavin E, Prior M, Cini E, et al. (2010) Predicting language outcomes at 4 years of age: Findings from the Early Language in Victoria Study. Pediatrics 126:e1530-e1537. doi: 10.1542/peds.2010-0254 PMID: 21059719
13. Rice ML, Taylor CL, Zubrick SR (2008) Language outcomes of 7-year-old children with or without a history of late language emergence at 24 months. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 51:394-407. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388 (2008/029) PMID: 18367685
14. Ukoumunne OC, Wake M, Carlin J, Bavin EL, Lum J, Skeat J, et al. (2012) Profiles of language development in pre-school children: a longitudinal latent class analysis of data from the Early Language in Victoria Study. Child: care, health and development 38:341-349.
15. Beitchman JH, Jiang H, Koyama E, Johnson CJ, Escobar M, Atkinson L, et al. (2008) Models and determinants of vocabulary growth from kindergarten to adulthood. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines 49:626-634.
16. Law J, Tomblin JB, Zhang X (2008) Characterizing the growth trajectories of language-impaired children between 7 and 11 years of age. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 51:739-749. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388 (2008/052) PMID: 18506047
17. Tomblin JB, Zhang X, Buckwalter P, O'Brien M (2003) The stability of primary language disorder: Four years after kindergarten diagnosis. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 46:1283-1296. PMID: 14700355
18. Taylor CL, Christensen D, Lawrence D, Mitrou F, Zubrick SR (2013) Risk Factors for Children's Receptive Vocabulary Development from Four to Eight Years in the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children. PLOS one 8:e73046. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0073046 PMID: 24039856
19. Luyten H, ten Bruggencate G (2011) The presence of Matthew effects in Dutch primary education, development of language skills over a six year period. Journal of Learning Disabilities 44:444-458. doi: 10.1177/0022219411410289 PMID: 21772060
20. Fergusson DM, Horwood LJ (1993) The effect of lead levels on the growth of word recognition in middle childhood International Journal of Epidemiology 22:891-897.
21. Farkas G, Beron K (2004) The detailed age trajectory of oral vocabulary knowledge: Differences by class and race. Social Science Research 33:464-497.
22. Peisner-Feinberg ES, Burchinal MR, Clifford RM, Culkin ML, Howes C, Kagan SL, et al. (2001) The relation of preschool child-care quality to children's cognitive and social developmental trajectories through second grade. Child Development 72:1534-1553. PMID: 11699686
23. Dionne G, Dale PS, Boivin M, Plomin R (2003) Genetic Evidence for Bidirectional Effects of Early Lexical and Grammatical Development. Child Development 74:394-412. PMID: 12705562
24. Rice ML (2013) Language growth and genetics of specific language impairment. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 15:223-233. doi: 10.3109/17549507.2013.783113 PMID: 23614332
25. Werker JF, Hensch TK (in press) Critical periods in Speech Perception: New directions. Annual Review of Psychology.
26. Braveman P, Egerter S, Williams DR (2011) The social determinants of health: coming of age. The Annual Review of Public Health 32:381-398. doi: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031210-101218 PMID: 21091195
27. Mrazek PJ, Heggarty RJ (1994) Reducing risks of mental disorder: frontiers for preventative intervention research. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
28. Singer JD, Willett JB (2003) Applied longitudinal data analysis. New York: Oxford University Press.
29. Australian Bureau of Statistics (2001) Socio-Economic Indexes for Areas. Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics.
30. Reilly S, Eadie P, Bavin EL, Wake M, Prior M, Williams J, et al. (2006) Growth of infant communication between 8 and 12 months: A population study. Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health 42:764-770. PMID: 17096710
31. Wiig EH, Secord WA, Semel E (2006) Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Preschool: Australian Standardised Edition. Sydney, Australia: Harcourt Assessment.
32. Semel E, Wiig EH, Secord WA (2006) Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Fourth Edition, Australian Standardised Edition Sydney, NSW: Psychological Corporation.
33. Beitchman JH, Brownlie EB, Wilson B (1996) Linguistic impairment and psychiatric disorder: pathways to outcome. In: Beitchman JH, Cohen NJ, Konstantareas MM, Tannock R, editors. Language, learning and behaviour disorders: Developmental biological and clinical perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 493-515.
34. Law J, Rush R, Anandan C, Cox M, Wood R (2012) Predicting language change between 3 and 5 Years and its implications for early identification. Pediatrics 130:132-137.
35. Silva PA, Williams S, McGee R (1987) A longitudinal study of children with developmental language delay at age three: Later intelligence, reading and behaviour problems. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 29:630-640. PMID: 2444484
36. Miniscalco C, Nygren G, Hagberg B, Kadesjö B, Gillberg C (2006) Neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental outcome of children at age 6 and 7 years who screened positive for language problems at 30 months. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 48:361-366. PMID: 16608544
37. Taylor CL, Zubrick SR (2009) Predicting children's speech, language and reading impairment over time. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology 11:341-343. PMID: 21841946
38. StataCorp. (2013) Stata Statistical Software: Release 13. College Station, TX: StataCorp LP.
39. Sylva K, Melhuish E, Sammons P, Siraj-Blatchford I, Taggart B (2008) Effective Pre-school and Primary Education 3-11 Project (EPPE 3-11) Final report from the primary phase: Pre-school, school and family influences on children's development during Key Stage 2. Nottingham: DCSF. DCSF-RR061 DCSF-RR061.
40. High P, LaGasse L, Becker S, Ahlgren L, Gardner A (2000) Literacy promotion in primary care pediatrics: Can we make a difference? Pediatrics, 105, 927-934. PMID: 10742349
41. Golova N, Alario A, Vivier P, Rodriguez M, High P (1999) Literacy promotion for Hispanic families in a primary care setting: A randomized, controlled trial. Journal of the Americal Academy of Pediatrics 103.
42. Dennison BA, Russo TJ, Burdick PA, Jenkins PL (2004) An intervention to reduce television viewing by preschool children. Archives of Pediatric Adolescent Medicine 158:170-176.
43. Nutbrown C, Hannon P, Morgan A (2005) Early literacy practice with families: policy, practice and research. London: Sage Publications.
44. Wake M, Sanson A, Berthelsen D, Hardy P, Misson S, Smith K, et al. (2008) How well are Australian infants and children aged 4 to 5 years doing? Findings from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children Wave 1. Australian Government: Department of Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs.
45. Barker DJ (2003) The developmental origins of adult disease. European Journal of Epidemiology 18:733-736. PMID: 12974544
46. Wright JC, Huston AC, Murphy KC, St. Peters M, Piñon M, Scantlin R, et al. (2001) The Relations of Early Television Viewing to School Readiness and Vocabulary of Children from Low-Income Families: The Early Window Project. Child Development 72:1347-1366. PMID: 11700636