Individual differences in first language acquisition

E Kidd, S Donnelly - Annual Review of Linguistics, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Humans vary in almost every dimension imaginable, and language is no exception. In this
article, we review the past research that has focused on individual differences (IDs) in first …

Maternal depressive symptoms and maternal child-directed speech: A systematic review

FA Scheiber, KK Ryckman, ÖE Demir-Lira - Journal of affective disorders, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Up to 1 in 5 children are exposed to maternal depressive symptoms. Children
exposed to maternal depressive symptoms have poorer language skills than children not …

The effect of the COVID‐19 pandemic on infant development and maternal mental health in the first 2 years of life

JF Sperber, ER Hart, SV Troller‐Renfree, TW Watts… - Infancy, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated how exogenous variation in exposure to the COVID‐19 pandemic during
the first year of life is related to infant development, maternal mental health, and perceived …

Deprivation and intra‐family conflict: Children as agents in the Family Stress Model

Y Chzhen, C Howarth, G Main - Journal of Marriage and Family, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The study applies an adapted Family Stress Model (FSM) to analyze the
relationship between child material deprivation and intra‐family conflict about money using …

Language disparities related to maternal education emerge by two years in a low-income sample

LM Justice, H Jiang, R Bates, A Koury - Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2020 - Springer
Objectives Young children living in low-income households experience disparities in
language development compared to their advantaged peers, with large differences in …

Change and stability in the association of parents' education with children's intelligence

SN Cave, M Wright, S von Stumm - Intelligence, 2022 - Elsevier
Parents' educational attainment is one of the strongest predictors of children's cognitive
development, which in turn exerts a pivotal influence on children's educational outcomes …

Ameliorating poverty-related communication and swallowing disabilities: Sustainable Development Goal 1

S Sherratt - International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose More than 700 million people globally are still living in extreme poverty. No poverty
(Sustainable Development Goal 1, SDG 1), is considered to be the greatest global …

Parental postpartum depression and children's receptive and expressive language during the first six years of life: A systematic review of depression timing, status …

BN Clifford, V Rainey, ND Eggum - Developmental Review, 2024 - Elsevier
Parental postpartum depression may be a risk factor for children's early language
development. However, previous empirical findings have been inconclusive regarding these …

Financial concern reduces child directed speech in a socioeconomically diverse sample

E Roby, RM Scott - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Socioeconomic status predicts the quantity and nature of child-directed speech that parents
produce. However, the mechanisms underlying this relationship remain unclear. This study …

Predictors of mothers' perceived change in warm and punitive parenting during COVID-19

F Corapci, HM Yavuz, N Sümer - Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2024 - Springer
The goal of the present study was to examine the child, caregiver, and family domain
predictors of mothers' perceived changes in warm and punitive parenting during the COVID …