On average, children from low socioeconomic status (SES) homes and children from homes
in which a language other than English is spoken have language development trajectories …

Research on literacy development is increasingly making clear the centrality of oral
language to long‐term literacy development, with longitudinal studies revealing the …

The use of spoken and written language is a fundamental human capacity. Individual
differences in reading-and language-related skills are influenced by genetic variation, with …

Indirect effects of preschool classroom indexes of teacher talk were tested on fourth‐grade
outcomes for 57 students from low‐income families in a longitudinal study of classroom and …

Describes patterns of general communication development and of English specificity,
emphasizing individual patterns. This edition devotes more attention to individual …

We designed a parent-directed home-visiting intervention targeting socioeconomic status
(SES) disparities in children's early language environments. A randomized controlled trial …

We use a longitudinal design to examine associations for a diverse sample of 2,120 Danish
16-to 30-month-old children between early expressive vocabulary and later reading and …

Early childhood programs have long been known to be beneficial to children from low-
income backgrounds, but recent studies have cast doubt on their ability to substantially …

Early language development predicts later reading competence, but does reading to young
children enhance the language interaction between them and their parents? Automatic …

We examined reciprocal associations between early maternal language use and children's
language and cognitive development in seventy ethnically diverse, low-income families …