Journal article
Maternal communicative behaviours and interaction quality as predictors of language development: findings from a community-based study of slow-to-talk toddlers
LJ Conway, PA Levickis, J Smith, F Mensah, M Wake, S Reilly
International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders | WILEY | Published : 2018
Abstract
Background: Identifying risk and protective factors for language development informs interventions for children with developmental language disorder (DLD). Maternal responsive and intrusive communicative behaviours are associated with language development. Mother–child interaction quality may influence how children use these behaviours in language learning. Aims: To identify (1) communicative behaviours and interaction quality associated with language outcomes; (2) whether the association between a maternal intrusive behaviour (directive) and child language scores changed alongside a maternal responsive behaviour (expansion); and (3) whether interaction quality modified these associations. M..
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Funding Acknowledgements
Let's Learn Language (NHMRC Strategic Award 384491) and Language for Learning (Project Grant 607407) were funded by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council. Manuscript preparation was supported by the NHMRC-funded Centre of Research Excellence in Child Language (1023493), an Australian Postgraduate Award for LC, and an NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship for SR (1041892). FM has been supported by an NHMRC Early Career Fellowship (#1037449), an NHMRC Career Development Fellowship (#1111160), and research at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute is supported by the Victorian Government's Operational Infrastructure Support Program. We thank Professor Lauren Adamson and Dr Katie Suma for their advice about coding, and Dr Sherryn Tobin and Ms Hannah Bryson for data collection. We sincerely thank the participants and their families.