Maternal responsiveness predicts child language at ages 3 and 4 in a community‐based sample of slow‐to‐talk toddlers

Hudson, Sophie; Levickis, Penny; Down, Kate; Nicholls, Ruth; Wake, Melissa

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“…In comparison to task performance, language development of young children is probably more dependent on family factors such as socioeconomic status and maternal responsiveness (23,24). If maternal hypothyroxinaemia is associated with socio economic status, or its indicators (Table 2), and this in turn with language test score, it would explain why the relation between hypothyroxinaemia and poor language test score disappeared after statistical correction for the family background.…”

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Maternal hypothyroxinaemia in early pregnancy and school performance in 5-year-old offspring

Noten

Loomans

Vrijkotte

et al. 2015

European Journal of Endocrinology

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Objective: Overt hypothyroidism in pregnant women is associated with a lower intelligence quotient in their children. More recently, subtle decreases in maternal thyroid function have also been associated with neurodevelopmental impairment in offspring. We tested the effect of hypothyroxinaemia during early pregnancy on school performance. Design: This was a longitudinal study that included the data of 1196 mother-child pairs from the Amsterdam Born Children and Their Development study. Methods: Maternal serum free thyroxine (T 4 ) and TSH were obtained at a median gestational age of 12.9 (interquartile range: 11.9-14.3) weeks. School performance was assessed at age 5 years and based on scores obtained in arithmetic and language tests from the national monitoring and evaluation system. Poor school performance was defined as a test result !25th percentile and subnormal school performance as a result !50th percentile of the norm population. To estimate the impact of possible non-response bias, we conducted inverse-probability weighted analyses. Results: Maternal hypothyroxinaemia (i.e., a maternal free T 4 in the lowest 10% of distribution) was associated with a 1.61 (95% CI: 1.05-2.47) -fold increased odds of subnormal arithmetic performance after adjustment for confounders (PZ0.03). However, the odds ratio dropped to 1.48 (95% CI: 0.94-2.32) after inverse-probability weighting (PZ0.09). No such relations were found with TSH. Conclusions: Maternal hypothyroxinaemia at the end of the first trimester was associated with reduced performance in an arithmetic test, but not in a language test, in 5-year-old offspring. However, our results should be interpreted carefully because of possible non-response bias.

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confidence: 99%

Maternal hypothyroxinaemia in early pregnancy and school performance in 5-year-old offspring

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Loomans

Vrijkotte

et al. 2015

European Journal of Endocrinology

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“…Previous work demonstrated that word frequency, grammatical complexity, and gender differences in language input influence early vocabulary size and growth (Huttenlocher, Haight, Bryk, Seltzer, & Lyons, 1991;Snow, 1972). In a similar way, several dimensions of maternal responsiveness predict children's acquisition of language milestones as early as 9 months of age (Tamis-LeMonda, Bornstein, & Baumwell, 2001) and even into the fourth year of life (Hudson, Levickis, Down, Nicholls, & Wake, 2015). Qualitative aspects of language exposure have been much less studied in the bilingual literature.…”

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The Language Exposure Assessment Tool: Quantifying Language Exposure in Infants and Children

Anda

Bosch

Poulin‐Dubois

et al. 2016

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose: The aim of this study was to develop the Language Exposure Assessment Tool (LEAT) and to examine its cross-linguistic validity, reliability, and utility. The LEAT is a computerized interview-style assessment that requests parents to estimate language exposure. The LEAT yields an automatic calculation of relative language exposure and captures qualitative aspects of early language experience. Method: Relative language exposure as reported on the LEAT and vocabulary size at 17 months of age were measured in a group of bilingual language learners with varying levels of exposure to French and English or Spanish and English.Results: The LEAT demonstrates high internal consistency and criterion validity. In addition, the LEAT's calculation of relative language exposure explains variability in vocabulary size above a single overall parent estimate. Conclusions: The LEAT is a valid and efficient tool for characterizing early language experience across cultural settings and levels of language exposure. The LEAT could be a useful tool in clinical contexts to aid in determining whether assessment and intervention should be conducted in one or more languages.

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“…Responsiveness, that is, the adaptation of the language support to the language skills of the child, is important. Children of very responsive mothers were proven to have better language skills (Hudson, Levickis, Down, Nicholls, & Wake, 2015). In very young children, parents are usually the appropriate starting point for an intervention.…”

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Heidelberg interaction training for language promotion in early childhood settings (HIT)

Buschmann¹,

Sachse

2018

Euro J of Education

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Beside parents, teachers in early childhood education and care have the greatest potential to foster language acquisition in children. This is especially important for children with language delays, language disorders or bi-/multilingual children. However, they present teachers with a particular challenge in language support. Therefore, integrated language facilitation programmes are needed to promote language wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/ejed Eur J Educ. 2018;53:66-78.

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Maternal responsiveness predicts child language at ages 3 and 4 in a community‐based sample of slow‐to‐talk toddlers

Cited by 44 publications

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Maternal hypothyroxinaemia in early pregnancy and school performance in 5-year-old offspring

Maternal hypothyroxinaemia in early pregnancy and school performance in 5-year-old offspring

The Language Exposure Assessment Tool: Quantifying Language Exposure in Infants and Children

Heidelberg interaction training for language promotion in early childhood settings (HIT)

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