The Mullen scales of early learning: ceiling effects among preschool children

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 138-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neta Yitzhak ◽  
Ayelet Harel ◽  
Maya Yaari ◽  
Edwa Friedlander ◽  
Nurit Yirmiya
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Early Learning ◽  
Ceiling Effects

scholarly journals Children, Outdoor Play, and Loose Parts

2018 ◽  
pp. 53-60
Author(s):  
Caileigh Flannigan ◽  
Beverlie Dietze
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Risk Taking ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Early Learning ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Outdoor Play ◽  
Outdoor Environment ◽  
Loose Parts ◽  
Social Behaviours

In an effort to understand how loose parts in early learning environments benefit children’s play and development, through observations of preschool children in a rural outdoor natural environment, this study examined behaviours that children exhibited as they used loose parts. Children exhibited a range of positive social behaviours, complex verbal and nonverbal behaviours, and various types of risk taking in their play. The findings suggest that children do not explicitly exhibit stereotypical gender or age-exclusion behaviours while using the loose parts. The results would suggest that increasing children’s opportunities to use loose parts in an early years outdoor environment will support their various aspects of development in positive ways.

ESEA Title III Project Design for Language-Handicapped Kindergarten and Preschool Children

1973 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 174-181
Author(s):  
Marilyn J. Click ◽  
Jerrie K. Ueberle ◽  
Charles E. George
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Project Design ◽  
Title Iii

The Elicitation of Vocal Responses From Preschool Children

1993 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 146-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Hyne Champley ◽  
Moya L. Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Assessment Protocol ◽  
Vocal Responses

This article discusses the construction of tasks used to elicit vocal responses from preschool children. Procedures to elicit valid and reliable responses are proposed, and a sample assessment protocol is presented.

The Preschool Stuttering Screen for Health Care Professionals

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-62
Author(s):  
Joseph Donaher ◽  
Christina Deery ◽  
Sarah Vogel
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Developmental Profile

Healthcare professionals require a thorough understanding of stuttering since they frequently play an important role in the identification and differential diagnosis of stuttering for preschool children. This paper introduces The Preschool Stuttering Screen for Healthcare Professionals (PSSHP) which highlights risk factors identified in the literature as being associated with persistent stuttering. By integrating the results of the checklist with a child’s developmental profile, healthcare professionals can make better-informed, evidence-based decisions for their patients.

Sharing Expository Texts with Preschool Children in Special Education

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 93-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison Breit-Smith ◽  
Jamie Busch ◽  
Ying Guo
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Preschool Children ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
Listening Comprehension ◽  
Expository Texts ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Preschool Special Education ◽  
Limited Availability

Although a general limited availability of expository texts currently exists in preschool special education classrooms, expository texts offer speech-language pathologists (SLPs) a rich context for addressing the language goals of preschool children with language impairment on their caseloads. Thus, this article highlights the differences between expository and narrative texts and describes how SLPs might use expository texts for targeting preschool children's goals related to listening comprehension, vocabulary, and syntactic relationships.

The Solution Strategy as an Indicator of the Developmental Stage of Preschool Children’s Mental-Rotation Ability

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Quaiser-Pohl ◽  
Anna M. Rohe ◽  
Tobias Amberger
Keyword(s):  
Preschool Children ◽  
Mental Rotation ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Preschool Age ◽  
Stage Model ◽  
Solution Strategy ◽  
Thinking Aloud ◽  
Transition Analysis ◽  
Solution Strategies ◽  
Close Relationship

The solution strategies of preschool children solving mental-rotation tasks were analyzed in two studies. In the first study n = 111 preschool children had to demonstrate their solution strategy in the Picture Rotation Test (PRT) items by thinking aloud; seven different strategies were identified. In the second study these strategies were confirmed by latent class analysis (LCA) with the PRT data of n = 565 preschool children. In addition, a close relationship was found between the solution strategy and children’s age. Results point to a stage model for the development of mental-rotation ability as measured by the PRT, going from inappropriate strategies like guessing or comparing details, to semiappropriate approaches like choosing the stimulus with the smallest angle discrepancy, to a holistic or analytic strategy. A latent transition analysis (LTA) revealed that the ability to mentally rotate objects can be influenced by training in the preschool age.

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