Recent research has demonstrated that handwriting practice facilitates letter categorization
in young children. The present experiments investigated why handwriting practice facilitates …

Purpose: Traditional approaches to studying bilingual language development through
bilingual–monolingual comparisons are deeply flawed. They are also insufficient as the …

Purpose Verb learning is a critical but challenging part of language acquisition. Children
with or at increased risk for developmental language disorder may particularly struggle with …

Purpose This study examined whether 2-year-olds are better able to acquire novel verb
meanings when they appear in varying linguistic contexts, including both content nouns and …

Code‐switching occurs regularly in the input to bilingual children. Yet, the effect of code‐
switched input on language development is unclear. To test whether word learning would be …

Letter production through handwriting creates visual experiences that may be important for
the development of visual letter perception. We sought to better understand the neural …

Visual perception in children can be evaluated using the Test of Visual Perceptual Skills—
4th edition (TVPS-4) with normative data developed for the US population. It is widely used …

Verbs serve as the architectural centerpiece of sentences, making verb learning pivotal for
language acquisition. Verb learning requires both the formation of a verb-action map** …

Purpose Authors of this content analysis examined how Sesame Street's Word on the Street
initiative aligns with research-based practices for selecting and teaching vocabulary to …

Abstract Language development is intertwined with motor development. This study
examined how visual processing might mediate the relation between language …