Bilingualism in children with autism spectrum disorder: Making evidence based recommendations.

MLH Beauchamp, AAN MacLeod - Canadian Psychology …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Plusieurs professionnels travaillant avec des parents bilingues d'enfants atteints de troubles
du spectre de l'autisme (TSA) sont préoccupés par le fait que le contexte linguistique …

Vocabulary matters! The relationship between verbal fluency and measures of inhibitory control in monolingual and bilingual children

GP Escobar, M Kalashnikova, P Escudero - Journal of Experimental Child …, 2018 - Elsevier
The role of early bilingual experience in the development of skills in the general cognitive
and linguistic domains remains poorly understood. This study investigated the link between …

The development of fast‐mapping and novel word retention strategies in monolingual and bilingual infants

M Kalashnikova, P Escudero, E Kidd - Developmental science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The mutual exclusivity (ME) assumption is proposed to facilitate early word learning by
guiding infants to map novel words to novel referents. This study assessed the emergence …

Modelling executive function across early childhood: Longitudinal invariance, development from 3.5 to 7 years and later academic performance

N Castellanos-Ryan, S Parent, S Chaput-Langlois… - Cognitive …, 2023 - Elsevier
This study examined (1) longitudinal invariance of executive function (EF) factors across
early childhood,(2) EF development, and (3) its association with later cognitive functions and …

Teaching vocabulary to young second-<? br?> or foreign-language learners: What can we learn from the research?

YG Butler - Language Teaching for Young Learners, 2019 - jbe-platform.com
While vocabulary knowledge is considered a foundational element for young learners of a
second or foreign language (L2/FL), pedagogically useful information on this topic is not …

Transactional longitudinal relations between accuracy and reaction time on a measure of cognitive flexibility at 5, 6, and 7 years of age

É Dumont, N Castellanos‐Ryan, S Parent… - Developmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Whereas accuracy is used as an indicator of cognitive flexibility in preschool‐age children,
reaction time (RT), or a combination of accuracy and RT, provide better indices of …

The youngest bilingual Canadians: Insights from the 2016 census regarding children aged 0–9 years

E Schott, LV Kremin, K Byers-Heinlein - Canadian Public Policy, 2022 - utpjournals.press
In this study, we used 2016 Canadian Census data to examine home bilingualism among
children aged 0–9 years. Across Canada, 18 percent of children used at least two …

Understanding family factors for language transmission of minoritized languages in bilingual kindergarten children growing up in multilingual neighbourhoods

AAN MacLeod, C Demers - Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Becoming bilingual is a necessity for many children because the language spoken at home
is not the language used in school. Situated in multlingual neighborhoods, this study reports …

Integrating bilingualism, verbal fluency, and executive functioning across the lifespan

Z Zeng, M Kalashnikova, M Antoniou - Journal of Cognition and …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Bilingual experience has an impact on an individual's linguistic processing and general
cognitive abilities. The relation between these linguistic and non-linguistic domains, in turn …

How community and family support bilingual language development: Insights from bilingual Canadian families

AAN MacLeod, N Trudeau, P Lefebvre… - International Journal …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
While previous research has shown that language use in the home is an important factor in
bilingual language development, little research has focused on how specific language …