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How Does Schooling Influence Maternal Health Practices? Evidence from Nepal
(University of Chicago Press, 2005)
Does linguistic input play the same role in language learning for children with and without early brain injury?
(American Psychological Association (APA), 2009)
Children with unilateral pre- or perinatal brain injury (BI) show remarkable plasticity for language
learning. Previous work highlights the important role that lesion characteristics play in explaining
individual variation ...
Learning words by hand: Gesture's role in predicting vocabulary development
(2008)
Children vary widely in how quickly their vocabularies grow. Can looking at
early gesture use in children and parents help us predict this variability? We
videotaped 53 English-speaking parent-child dyads in their homes ...
Differences in Early Gesture Explain SES Disparities in Child Vocabulary Size at School Entry
(American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2009)
Children from low–socioeconomic status (SES) families, on average, arrive at school with smaller
vocabularies than children from high-SES families. In an effort to identify precursors to, and
possible remedies for, this ...
A Comparison of Fathers' and Mothers' Talk to Toddlers in Low-income Families
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2004)
The purpose of this study was to provide descriptive information about low-income
fathers’ and mothers’ talk to toddlers and to re-examine the bridge hypothesis
(Gleason, 1975) in light of current changes in family ...
Pointing and talk by low-income mothers and their 14-month-old children
(SAGE Publications, 2000)
This study examines maternal talk and uses of the pointing gesture during interaction with young children in order to uncover the relationship between maternal and child pointing and talk. Forty- five low-income mother-child ...
Maternal literacy and health behavior: a Nepalese case study
(2004)
This article addresses the question of whether literacy could be mediating the relationships of schooling to maternal
health behavior in populations undergoing demographic transition. Recent studies in which literacy was ...
Maternal Correlates of Growth in Toddler Vocabulary Production in Low-Income Families
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2005)
This study investigated predictors of growth in toddlers’ vocabulary production between the ages of 1 and 3 years by analyzing mother – child communication in 108 low-income families. Individual growth modeling was used ...
Literacy as a pathway between schooling and health-related communication skills: a study of Venezuelan mothers
(2005)
This article addresses the mechanisms by which women’s schooling might affect the survival and health of their children. A theoretical model is proposed in which academic literacy skills serve as a pathway between formal ...