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Research
Latest papers
Measuring the complex syntax of school-aged children in language sample analysis: A known-groups validation study.
International journal of language & communication disorders · 2020
A multi-site review of policies affecting opportunities for children with developmental disabilities to become bilingual.
Journal of communication disorders · 2016
Mothers' talk to children with Down Syndrome, language impairment, or typical development about familiar and unfamiliar nouns and verbs.
Journal of child language · 2016 · senior author
Latest funding
- $365,096
The discourse skills of monolingual and bilingual school-aged children
SSHRC · 2016 · Principal investigator
- $199,857
Opportunities for bilingualism in preschool and school-age children with developmental disabilities: an international investigation
SSHRC · 2011 · Co-investigator
- $101,002
Bilingualism in children with Down syndrome
SSHRC · 2007 · Co-investigator
5 publications.
Measuring the complex syntax of school-aged children in language sample analysis: A known-groups validation study.
Cahill P, Cleave P, Asp E, Squires B, Kay-Raining Bird E
A multi-site review of policies affecting opportunities for children with developmental disabilities to become bilingual.
Pesco D, MacLeod AA, Kay-Raining Bird E, Cleave P, Trudeau N, de Valenzuela JS, Cain K, Marinova-Todd SH, Colozzo P, Stahl H, Segers E, Verhoeven L
Mothers' talk to children with Down Syndrome, language impairment, or typical development about familiar and unfamiliar nouns and verbs.
Kay-Raining Bird E, Cleave P
A longitudinal study of narrative development in children and adolescents with Down syndrome.
Cleave P, Bird EK, Czutrin R, Smith L
The language abilities of bilingual children with Down syndrome.
Bird EK, Cleave P, Trudeau N, Thordardottir E, Sutton A, Thorpe A
The discourse skills of monolingual and bilingual school-aged children
Principal investigators: Cleave, Patricia L.
Keywords: bilingualism; school-age children; discourse skills; narrative skills; expository skills; language development
Opportunities for bilingualism in preschool and school-age children with developmental disabilities: an international investigation
Principal investigators: Kay-Raining Bird, Elizabeth R. M.
Keywords: bilingualism; developmental disabilities; language development; education; inclusion
Bilingualism in children with Down syndrome
Principal investigators: Kay-Raining Bird, Elizabeth R.M.
Keywords: language acquisition; language disorders; bilingualism; Down syndrome; longitudinal; fast mapping; vocabulary; morphology; graphic symbols
Group language and literacy intervention for preschool children
Principal investigators: Girolametto, Luigi E.
Keywords: language development; language intervention; preschool children; prevention; early childhood education; early literacy skills
A longitudinal study of language learning in children with Down syndrome
Principal investigators: Kay-Raining Bird, Elizabeth R. M.
Keywords: down syndrome; bilingual; language development; language disorders
Language learning in children with Down syndrome: the impact of linguistic context
Principal investigators: Kay-Raining Bird, Elizabeth
Keywords: Down syndrome; language development; bilingualism
Mother-child talk about familiar and unfamiliar words/objects/actions
Principal investigators: Kay-Raining Bird, Elizabeth
Keywords: Language development; acoustic phonetics; lexical acq. ; Down Syndrome; late talkers
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