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50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Comparison of Two Word Learning Techniques and the Effect of Neighborhood Density for Late Talkers
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DeVeney, Shari L.; Cress, Cynthia J.; Reid, Robert – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2014
The investigators compared two techniques for teaching expressive vocabulary to late talkers: modeling with an expectant pause and modeling with an evoked child production. They also explored the influence of neighborhood density on children's real word learning. Three late talkers (ages 25-33 months) received two alternating vocabulary…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Receptive Language, Preschool Children, Teaching Methods
Contingent Interactions between Parents and Young Children with Severe Expressive Communication Impairments
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Cress, Cynthia J.; Grabast, Jodi; Burgers Jerke, Kimberly – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2013
Parents and their children with severe expressive impairments may have limited successful communicative exchanges due to each partner's difficulty in recognizing and responding to communicative behaviors of the other. This study examined the communicative functions and modes of communication that received contingent responses in 20 dyads of…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Young Children, Parents, Communication Disorders
Parent Directiveness in Free Play with Young Children with Physical Impairments
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Cress, Cynthia J.; Moskal, Lisa; Hoffmann, Ann – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2008
Children with disabilities are reported to experience a high degree of directive parent interaction compared to typically developing children because of poor communicative or task skills. This study examines relationships between parent behaviors (directiveness and contingency) and child skills (language and motor) for children with physical or…
Descriptors: Play, Early Intervention, Physical Disabilities, Parent Child Relationship
Parent Perceptions of Communication Behaviors at Formally Assessed Stage Transitions in Young Children at Risk for Being Nonspeaking
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Matthews-Somerville, Rochelle C.; Cress, Cynthia J. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2005
The authors compared parent-perceived communication behaviors for formally assessed stages longitudinally for 42 infants at risk for being nonspeaking. They compared perceived communication behaviors at assessed transitions to communicative stages (intentional behavior, intentional communication, symbolic communication) and found systematic…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Longitudinal Studies, Infants, Parent Participation