6 results match your criteria: "The Champion Centre[Affiliation]"
Variation in morpho-lexical development within and between diagnoses in children with neurodevelopmental disorders.
Front Psychol
January 2023
New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
While primary diagnosis is only one aspect of the presentation of a child with neurodevelopmental delay/disorder, the degree to which early expressive language reflects diagnostic divisions must be understood in order to reduce the risk of obscuring clinically important differences and similarities across diagnoses. We present original data from the New Zealand MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory (NZCDI) from 88 English-speaking children aged 2;6 to 5;6 years receiving multidisciplinary intervention within a single family-centered program. The children had one of six pediatrician-assigned genetic or behaviorally determined diagnoses: Down syndrome (DS); motor disorders (cerebral palsy and developmental coordination disorder); global development delay; disorders of relating and communicating (R&C); other genetically defined diagnoses; or language delay due to premature (PREM) birth.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWord type and modality in the emerging expressive vocabularies of preschool children with Down syndrome.
Int J Lang Commun Disord
May 2023
The Champion Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Article Synopsis
- Previous studies have examined the expressive vocabularies of preschool children with Down syndrome, focusing on both spoken and signed forms, exploring word types and preferences for expression modality.
- The current study aims to analyze how vocabulary size relates to word type and expressions used over time in children aged 36-66 months, utilizing a detailed inventory assessment completed by their mothers.
- Results showed that children's vocabularies mostly contained social words, with observable preferences for mediums of expression and significant individual variations in language development trajectories, including some regressions in vocabulary size.
Prenatal methadone exposure and child developmental outcomes in 2-year-old children.
Dev Med Child Neurol
September 2021
School of Health Sciences and Child Wellbeing Research Institute, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Aim: To examine the developmental outcomes of children born to opioid-dependent females enrolled in methadone maintenance and identify pre- and postnatal factors that place these children at developmental risk.
Method: Ninety-nine methadone-maintained females and their 100 infants (42 females, 58 males, mean gestational age 38.8wks) were recruited during pregnancy/at birth and studied to age 2 years alongside a regionally representative comparison group of 108 non-methadone-maintained females and their 110 infants (62 females, 48 males, mean gestational age 39.
The roles of language use and vocabulary size in the emergence of word-combining in children with complex neurodevelopmental disabilities.
J Child Lang
January 2021
University of Canterbury, New Zealand Institute of Language, Brain and Behaviour.
Article Synopsis
- A study involving 82 preschool children with complex neurodevelopmental disabilities found that communicative language use needs to reach a certain level before vocabulary size becomes the main predictor of their ability to combine words.
- Researchers used tools like the Language Use Inventory and the MacArthur-Bates CDI to analyze data, revealing that pragmatic skills (the ability to communicate about various topics) are more crucial for early word combination than just having a large vocabulary.
- Once children establish basic pragmatic abilities, vocabulary size becomes a stronger predictor for their later ability to combine words effectively.
High prevalence/low severity language delay in preschool children born very preterm.
J Dev Behav Pediatr
October 2010
The Champion Centre, Burwood Hospital, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Objective: To examine the language development at corrected age 4 years of a regionally representative cohort of children born very preterm (VPT). Of particular interest was the identification of biological and socioenvironmental risk and protective factors that influence VPT children's early language development.
Method: Data were collected as part of a prospective longitudinal study of 110 VPT (VPT: ≤ 33 weeks gestation) and 113 full-term children (full term: 37-41 weeks gestation) born in Canterbury, New Zealand from 1998 to 2000.
Early delayed language development in very preterm infants: evidence from the MacArthur-Bates CDI.
J Child Lang
August 2007
University of Canterbury and the Champion Centre, Christchurch, New Zealand.
This study examined the effects of being born very preterm on children's early language development using prospective longitudinal data from a representative regional cohort of 90 children born very preterm (gestational age <33 weeks and/or birth weight <1,500 grams) and a comparison sample of 102 children born full term (gestational age 38-41 weeks). The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory: Words and Sentences (CDI-WS) was used to assess children's language development at age 2;0 (corrected for gestational age at birth). Clear linear relationships were found between gestational age at birth and later language outcomes, with decreasing gestational age being associated with poorer parent-reported language skills.
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