Language and Symbolic Play in Toddlers

Lyytinen, Paula; Poikkeus, Anna‐Maija; Laakso, Marja‐Leena

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“…More specifically, the use of early symbolic actions and communicative gestures in particular and also comprehensive as well as expressive skills at 12 months correlated with comprehensive skills one and a half years later. The relationship between symbolic play and language comprehension has also been found in some earlier studies (Lyytinen, Poikkeus, & Laakso, 1997;Tamis-LeMonda & Bornstein, 1994), suggesting that language -play relations are likely to be specialized rather than global. As for expressive scale score at 30 months, the communication composite score CSBS-Total at 12 moths as well as the use of gestural and verbal communicative means and also reciprocity during the CSBS test procedure correlated with it positively.…”

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confidence: 70%

Maternal sensitivity, infant co-operation and early linguistic development: Some predictive relations

Paavola

Kemppinen

Kumpulainen

et al. 2006

European Journal of Developmental Psychology

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Maternal sensitivity and infant co-operation during free play was analysed at the infant's age of 10 months and their contributions to early communicative and linguistic development at 12 months as well as later language outcome at 30 months were examined. In addition, the possible predictions of early skills to later development were considered. The participants were 27 Finnishspeaking mother -infant dyads. According to the results maternal sensitivity was associated with early intentional communication-particularly the use of communicative gestures, and also with symbolic behaviour and later comprehensive skills. No associations between infant co-operation and communicative and linguistic skills were found. As for expressive language skills, early capacities correlated with later outcome. The findings of the present study suggest that the effects of both maternal sensitivity and child characteristics on language development are likely to be specific rather than global.

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Section: Early Interaction and Linguistic Skills 25mentioning

confidence: 70%

Maternal sensitivity, infant co-operation and early linguistic development: Some predictive relations

Paavola

Kemppinen

Kumpulainen

et al. 2006

European Journal of Developmental Psychology

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“…Morphemes rather than words were used as the use of suffixes is an essential feature of Finnish which is a highly inflected language. In previous studies within the JLD (Lyytinen P et al 1997, found a high correspondence between parental reports (MCDI) and children's performance in language tests (Reynell Developmental Language Scales [RDLS;Reynell and Huntley 1987] at 1 1 ⁄ 2 and 2 1 ⁄ 2 years, and the Bayley Scales of Infants Development II at 2 years; Bayley 1993). This supports the validity of the MCDI as a measure of early language development.…”

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Development of early motor skills and language in children at risk for familial dyslexia

Viholainen¹,

Ahonen²,

Cantell³

et al. 2002

Dev Med Child Neurol

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Differences in motor development and the relationship between motor and language development were studied in 88 children with familial risk for dyslexia (43 females, 45 males; at-risk group) and 88 children without familial risk for dyslexia (35 females, 53 females; control group; n=176) during the first two years of life. A structured parental questionnaire was used to assess motor development. Expressive language skills were assessed at the age of 18 months with the Reynell Developmental Language Scales and at 18 and 24 months with the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories. At group level, the motor development of children in both the at-risk and control groups was similar. However, motor development showed a different pattern in these groups. Cluster analyses revealed three clusters in the control group: 'fast motor development', 'slow fine motor development', and 'slow gross motor development'. In the at-risk group, only two clusters were found: 'slow motor development' and 'fast motor development'. A significant difference (p=0.03) was found between the clusters in the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories. Children with familial risk for dyslexia and slow motor development had a smaller vocabulary and produced shorter sentences than the all other children. Associations between motor and language difficulties are discussed.

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“…The results of Lyytinen et al (1997) showed significant concurrent associations between the language of 18-montholds and their symbolic play. On the symbolic play measures the relationships were higher between play and language comprehension, than between play and language production.…”

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The development and predictive relations of play and language across the second year

Lyytinen

Laakso

Poikkeus

et al. 1999

Scandinavian J Psychology

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The play and language development of 171 toddlers was examined at 14 and 18 months by observing their activities on the Symbolic Play Test and by assessing their language skills using the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (MCDI) and the Reynell Developmental Language Scales. Additionally, data from the Bayley Scales of Infant Development and the MCDI were obtained at 24 months, in order to investigate how play and language measures taken at 14 and 18 months predict children's development at the age of 2 years. The results showed that the vocabulary production and symbolic play of the 14-month-old toddlers made a unique contribution to their language and cognitive skills at the age of 2 years, while at 18 months only language variables made a similar contribution. Other-directed pretense discriminated between the children's subsequent language and cognitive skills best, whereas nonsymbolic play had no independent predictive contribution. Significant gender differences were found in the use of nonsymbolic and symbolic play acts already at 14 months. Gender did not, however, contribute to the prediction of the children's subsequent skills, whereas maternal education significantly added to the prediction of the 2-year-olds' maximum sentence length and that of their cognitive development.

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Language and Symbolic Play in Toddlers

Cited by 47 publications

References 28 publications

Maternal sensitivity, infant co-operation and early linguistic development: Some predictive relations

Maternal sensitivity, infant co-operation and early linguistic development: Some predictive relations

Development of early motor skills and language in children at risk for familial dyslexia

The development and predictive relations of play and language across the second year

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