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Starting over : the language development in internationally-adopted children /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Trends in language acquisition research ;
18. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Starting Over -The Language Development in Internationally-Adopted Children
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The present volume
- Summing up
- References
- Part II: General development
- Pre-adoption stress, adversity and later development in IA children
- Introduction
- Stress and adversity before entering institution
- Stress and adversity during institutionalization
- Lack of individualized care
- Limited access to learning opportunities
- Lack of adequate medical care
- IA children's pre-adoption adversity and post-adoption development
- Resilience in IA children with a history of early deprivation
- Conclusion and future directions
- References
- Children's cognitive development after adoption
- Introduction
- Natural experiments of adoption
- The English and Romanian adoptee study
- Cognitive development
- Effects of short versus prolonged deprivation. The retrospective Denver scores as reported by the parents
- at age 4 for the children who were adopted before their second birthday and at age 6 for the children who were adopted after their second birthday
- Catch-up over time. Despite these cognitive impairments, the adoptees showed improvement in their cognitive functioning after adoptive placement. More specifically, the children already showed remarkable catch-up between adoptive placement and their fourt
- School achievement
- The Greek Metera study
- Cognitive development
- School achievement
- Leiden Longitudinal Adoption Study
- Cognitive development
- School achievement
- Chinese adoptees in the Netherlands (CAN)
- Cognitive development
- Conclusions of the natural experiments
- The Bucharest Early Intervention Study
- Cognitive development
- Timing of foster care placement
- Follow-up
- Meta-analysis
- Executive functioning.
- Laboratory tasks
- Questionnaires
- Conclusions
- Discussion
- References
- Part III: Language development
- Language development during the preschool years
- Introduction
- Birth language attrition
- Language development assessed using global measures
- Pragmatic development
- Phonological development
- Vocabulary development
- Results from caregiver reports
- Results from standardized norm-referenced tests
- Language sample measures
- Morphosyntactic development
- Conclusions
- References
- Language, cognitive, and academic abilities of school-age internationally-adopted children
- Introduction
- Language
- Phonology
- Vocabulary
- Grammar
- Self-assessments of language ability
- Bilingual acquisition by IA children
- Summary
- Memory and executive functions
- Memory
- Executive functions
- Educational achievement and special education services
- Other factors to consider
- Length of institutionalization
- Age at adoption
- Country of origin
- Comparison groups
- Conclusions
- Future directions
- References
- Long-term language development in international adoptees
- Assumptions about long-term language development
- Short- and medium-term language development
- Long-term language development
- Language proficiency in adult adoptees: Nativelike or near-native?
- Language development in specific domains
- Conclusion and future directions
- References
- Speech and language clinical issues in internationally-adopted children
- Introduction
- Language and speech outcomes of internationally-adopted children
- Using local norms to assess language and speech in internationally-adopted children
- Speech and language assessments and outcomes for children adopted internationally at different ages
- Children adopted at ages 0-11 months
- Children adopted at ages 12-17 months.
- Children adopted at ages 18-23 months
- Children adopted at ages 2
- 0 to 2
- 11 years
- Children adopted at ages 3
- 0 to 3
- 11 years
- Children adopted at ages 4
- 0 to 4
- 11 years
- Children adopted at ages 5
- 0 years and older
- Diagnostic considerations
- Diagnostic considerations: Vocabulary
- Diagnostic considerations: Syntax and grammar
- Diagnostic considerations: Verbal memory
- Diagnostic considerations: Attention
- Who qualifies for speech or language services?
- Support for struggling children
- Summary and conclusion
- References
- Language loss or retention in internationally-adopted children
- Introduction
- Language attrition in international adoptees
- Optimal periods for language development
- Effect of IA children's early experience on their adopted language
- Summary and conclusions
- Next steps
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Index.