Karen E Nelson
Biographic Data
| ID | 115393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen E Nelson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen E |
| FAMILY NAME | Nelson |
| SIGNATURE | NELSON K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7122-9094 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 242 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Recast type, repair, and acquisition in AAC mediated interaction
The present study investigated the effects of different types of recasts and prompts on the rate of repair and spontaneous use of novel vocabulary by eight children with severe motor speech disabilities who used speech-generating technologies to communicate. Data came from 60 transcripts of clinical sessions that were part of a conversation-based intervention designed to teach them pronouns, verbs, and verb inflections. The results showed that, w…
Gut microbiome composition of wild western lowland gorillas is associated with individual age and sex factors
OBJECTIVES: Environmental and ecological factors, such as geographic range, anthropogenic pressure, group identity, and feeding behavior are known to influence the gastrointestinal microbiomes of great apes. However, the influence of individual host traits such as age and sex, given specific dietary and social constraints, has been less studied. The objective of this investigation was to determine the associations between an individual's age and …
Host age, social group, and habitat type influence the gut microbiota of wild ring‐tailed lemurs ( Lemur catta )
The gut microbiota contributes to host health by maintaining homeostasis, increasing digestive efficiency, and facilitating the development of the immune system. The composition of the gut microbiota can change dramatically within and between individuals of a species as a result of diet, age, or habitat. Therefore, understanding the factors determining gut microbiota diversity and composition can contribute to our knowledge of host ecology as wel…
Children choose their own stories: The impact of choice on children's learning of new narrative skills
Despite evidence that early narrative abilities are predictive of literacy skills and academic achievement, only limited progress has been made in understanding how the development of these narrative skills can be facilitated. The current study measured the effectiveness of a new narrative intervention conducted with 26 preschoolers. Children were assigned to one of two intervention conditions: an active-choice condition (able to choose story com…
The role of gut microbes in satisfying the nutritional demands of adult and juvenile wild, black howler monkeys ( A louatta pigra )
In all mammals, growth, development, pregnancy, and lactation increase nutritional demands. Although primate field studies tend to focus on shifts in activity and diet as mechanisms to compensate for these demands, differences in digestive efficiency also are likely to be important. Because the gut microbiota can impact host digestive efficiency, we examined differences in activity budget, diet, and the gut microbial community among adult male ( …
Language delays of impoverished preschool children in relation to early academic and emotion recognition skills
Prevalence of delayed language vs. normative language was examined in impoverished preschool children. On the basis of vocabulary, syntax comprehension, and syntax expression, 336 4-year-olds attending Head Start preschools in the US were assigned to five language status categories. A majority of these children living in poverty demonstrated clinically significant language delays, and this held true equally for Majority (White European) and Minor…
The development of cognitive skills and gains in academic school readiness for children from low-income families
This study examined developmental associations between growth in domain-general cognitive processes (working memory and attention control) and growth in domain-specific skills (emergent literacy and numeracy) across the pre-kindergarten year, and their relative contributions to kindergarten reading and math achievement.One hundred sixty-four Head Start children (44% African American or Latino; 57% female) were followed longitudinally.Path analyse…
Incidental receptive language growth associated with expressive grammar intervention in SLI
Children with SLI (Specific Language Impairment) display language deficits in the absence of frank neurological lesions, global cognitive deficits or significant clinical hearing loss. Although these children can display disruptions in both receptive and expressive grammar, the intervention literature has been largely focused on expressive deficits. Thus, there are numerous reports in the literature suggesting that expressive language skills can …
Psycholinguistic and Educational Implications of Deafness
The linguistic abilities, cognitive abilities, and educational achievements of the deaf are reviewed. The reviewed indicates three conclusions about the abilities of deaf persons relative to hearing persons: (1) The deaf are not deficient in intellectual competence, thus weaker skills in English and lower educational achievement require other explanations; (2) despite marked deficiencies in using and processing English, a great number of deaf per…
Promoting Academic and Social-Emotional School Readiness: The Head Start Redi Program
Forty-four Head Start classrooms were randomly assigned to enriched intervention (Head Start REDI-Research-based, Developmentally Informed) or "usual practice" conditions. The intervention involved brief lessons, "hands-on" extension activities, and specific teaching strategies linked empirically with the promotion of: (a) social-emotional competencies and (b) language development and emergent literacy skills. Take-home materials were provided to…
Measurement and the Diagnosis and Treatment of Language Disorders in Children
The accurate diagnosis of clinical conditions that include language disorders (e.g., developmental disabilities, autism, and specific language impairment) rests squarely on the accurate measurement of language and related abilities. In addition, because the goal of any treatment program is to generate measurable progress in language function, it is essential that treatment programs be designed within the context of state-of-the-art measurement. T…
Useful evidence on negative evidence
J. L. Morgan, K. M. Bonamo, and L. L. Travis (1995) applied synchronous and time-series regression techniques to observational data to detect effects of recasted error correction on children's emerging grammar. Results showed that recasts did not facilitate learning but actually impeded it. In this study, a formal modeling procedure was used to generate similar time series with known, underlying learning relations. The regression procedures used …
Temperament and language: Relations from toddlerhood to middle childhood
This study examined contemporaneous and longitudinal relations between temperament and language in toddlerhood and middle childhood. Language was assessed using the Sequenced Inventory of Communicative Development in 229 children at age 2 and in 212 of these children at age 2. Observers rated dimensions of the children's temperament at age 2 on the Infant Behavior Record. In addition, 164 of these children were administered a battery of language …
Cookie versus Do-it-again: Imitative-Referential and Personal-Social-Syntactic-Initiating Language Styles in Young Children
Article Cookie versus Do-it-again: imitative-referential and personal-social-syntactic-initiating language styles in young children was published on January 1, 1985 in the journal Linguistics (volume 23, issue 3)
CookieversusDo-it-again: Imitative-Referential and Personal-Social-Syntactic-Initiating Language Styles in Young Children
Recasting and related conversational techniques for triggering syntactic advances by young children
In 'recast' replies in conversation a first utterance is recast or re displayed in a changed sentence structure that still refers to the central meanings of the first sentence. Two intervention studies were conducted to explore the effects of recasting on children's language acquisition. The two subjects in Study One were ages 3;5 and 3;10 with MLUs of 4.81 and 4.23. The six subjects in Study Two ranged in age from 2;6 to 3;2 with MLUs of 3.07 to…
Abstract of Keynote Address
Facilitating children's syntax acquisition
Semantic retrieval in children and adults
Promoting Academic and Social-Emotional School Readiness: The Head Start Redi Program
Forty-four Head Start classrooms were randomly assigned to enriched intervention (Head Start REDI-Research-based, Developmentally Informed) or "usual practice" conditions. The intervention involved brief lessons, "hands-on" extension activities, and specific teaching strategies linked empirically with the promotion of: (a) social-emotional competencies and (b) language development and emergent literacy skills. Take-home materials were provided to…
The development of cognitive skills and gains in academic school readiness for children from low-income families
This study examined developmental associations between growth in domain-general cognitive processes (working memory and attention control) and growth in domain-specific skills (emergent literacy and numeracy) across the pre-kindergarten year, and their relative contributions to kindergarten reading and math achievement.One hundred sixty-four Head Start children (44% African American or Latino; 57% female) were followed longitudinally.Path analyse…
Facilitating children's syntax acquisition
The role of gut microbes in satisfying the nutritional demands of adult and juvenile wild, black howler monkeys ( A louatta pigra )
In all mammals, growth, development, pregnancy, and lactation increase nutritional demands. Although primate field studies tend to focus on shifts in activity and diet as mechanisms to compensate for these demands, differences in digestive efficiency also are likely to be important. Because the gut microbiota can impact host digestive efficiency, we examined differences in activity budget, diet, and the gut microbial community among adult male ( …
Temperament and language: Relations from toddlerhood to middle childhood
This study examined contemporaneous and longitudinal relations between temperament and language in toddlerhood and middle childhood. Language was assessed using the Sequenced Inventory of Communicative Development in 229 children at age 2 and in 212 of these children at age 2. Observers rated dimensions of the children's temperament at age 2 on the Infant Behavior Record. In addition, 164 of these children were administered a battery of language …
Semantic retrieval in children and adults
Gut microbiome composition of wild western lowland gorillas is associated with individual age and sex factors
OBJECTIVES: Environmental and ecological factors, such as geographic range, anthropogenic pressure, group identity, and feeding behavior are known to influence the gastrointestinal microbiomes of great apes. However, the influence of individual host traits such as age and sex, given specific dietary and social constraints, has been less studied. The objective of this investigation was to determine the associations between an individual's age and …
Useful evidence on negative evidence
J. L. Morgan, K. M. Bonamo, and L. L. Travis (1995) applied synchronous and time-series regression techniques to observational data to detect effects of recasted error correction on children's emerging grammar. Results showed that recasts did not facilitate learning but actually impeded it. In this study, a formal modeling procedure was used to generate similar time series with known, underlying learning relations. The regression procedures used …
Cookie versus Do-it-again: Imitative-Referential and Personal-Social-Syntactic-Initiating Language Styles in Young Children
Article Cookie versus Do-it-again: imitative-referential and personal-social-syntactic-initiating language styles in young children was published on January 1, 1985 in the journal Linguistics (volume 23, issue 3)
CookieversusDo-it-again: Imitative-Referential and Personal-Social-Syntactic-Initiating Language Styles in Young Children
Semantic retrieval in children and adults
Facilitating children's syntax acquisition
Abstract of Keynote Address
Recasting and related conversational techniques for triggering syntactic advances by young children
In 'recast' replies in conversation a first utterance is recast or re displayed in a changed sentence structure that still refers to the central meanings of the first sentence. Two intervention studies were conducted to explore the effects of recasting on children's language acquisition. The two subjects in Study One were ages 3;5 and 3;10 with MLUs of 4.81 and 4.23. The six subjects in Study Two ranged in age from 2;6 to 3;2 with MLUs of 3.07 to…
Cookie versus Do-it-again: Imitative-Referential and Personal-Social-Syntactic-Initiating Language Styles in Young Children
Article Cookie versus Do-it-again: imitative-referential and personal-social-syntactic-initiating language styles in young children was published on January 1, 1985 in the journal Linguistics (volume 23, issue 3)
CookieversusDo-it-again: Imitative-Referential and Personal-Social-Syntactic-Initiating Language Styles in Young Children
Temperament and language: Relations from toddlerhood to middle childhood
This study examined contemporaneous and longitudinal relations between temperament and language in toddlerhood and middle childhood. Language was assessed using the Sequenced Inventory of Communicative Development in 229 children at age 2 and in 212 of these children at age 2. Observers rated dimensions of the children's temperament at age 2 on the Infant Behavior Record. In addition, 164 of these children were administered a battery of language …
Useful evidence on negative evidence
J. L. Morgan, K. M. Bonamo, and L. L. Travis (1995) applied synchronous and time-series regression techniques to observational data to detect effects of recasted error correction on children's emerging grammar. Results showed that recasts did not facilitate learning but actually impeded it. In this study, a formal modeling procedure was used to generate similar time series with known, underlying learning relations. The regression procedures used …
Measurement and the Diagnosis and Treatment of Language Disorders in Children
The accurate diagnosis of clinical conditions that include language disorders (e.g., developmental disabilities, autism, and specific language impairment) rests squarely on the accurate measurement of language and related abilities. In addition, because the goal of any treatment program is to generate measurable progress in language function, it is essential that treatment programs be designed within the context of state-of-the-art measurement. T…
Promoting Academic and Social-Emotional School Readiness: The Head Start Redi Program
Forty-four Head Start classrooms were randomly assigned to enriched intervention (Head Start REDI-Research-based, Developmentally Informed) or "usual practice" conditions. The intervention involved brief lessons, "hands-on" extension activities, and specific teaching strategies linked empirically with the promotion of: (a) social-emotional competencies and (b) language development and emergent literacy skills. Take-home materials were provided to…
Incidental receptive language growth associated with expressive grammar intervention in SLI
Children with SLI (Specific Language Impairment) display language deficits in the absence of frank neurological lesions, global cognitive deficits or significant clinical hearing loss. Although these children can display disruptions in both receptive and expressive grammar, the intervention literature has been largely focused on expressive deficits. Thus, there are numerous reports in the literature suggesting that expressive language skills can …
Psycholinguistic and Educational Implications of Deafness
The linguistic abilities, cognitive abilities, and educational achievements of the deaf are reviewed. The reviewed indicates three conclusions about the abilities of deaf persons relative to hearing persons: (1) The deaf are not deficient in intellectual competence, thus weaker skills in English and lower educational achievement require other explanations; (2) despite marked deficiencies in using and processing English, a great number of deaf per…
The development of cognitive skills and gains in academic school readiness for children from low-income families
This study examined developmental associations between growth in domain-general cognitive processes (working memory and attention control) and growth in domain-specific skills (emergent literacy and numeracy) across the pre-kindergarten year, and their relative contributions to kindergarten reading and math achievement.One hundred sixty-four Head Start children (44% African American or Latino; 57% female) were followed longitudinally.Path analyse…
Language delays of impoverished preschool children in relation to early academic and emotion recognition skills
Prevalence of delayed language vs. normative language was examined in impoverished preschool children. On the basis of vocabulary, syntax comprehension, and syntax expression, 336 4-year-olds attending Head Start preschools in the US were assigned to five language status categories. A majority of these children living in poverty demonstrated clinically significant language delays, and this held true equally for Majority (White European) and Minor…
Children choose their own stories: The impact of choice on children's learning of new narrative skills
Despite evidence that early narrative abilities are predictive of literacy skills and academic achievement, only limited progress has been made in understanding how the development of these narrative skills can be facilitated. The current study measured the effectiveness of a new narrative intervention conducted with 26 preschoolers. Children were assigned to one of two intervention conditions: an active-choice condition (able to choose story com…
The role of gut microbes in satisfying the nutritional demands of adult and juvenile wild, black howler monkeys ( A louatta pigra )
In all mammals, growth, development, pregnancy, and lactation increase nutritional demands. Although primate field studies tend to focus on shifts in activity and diet as mechanisms to compensate for these demands, differences in digestive efficiency also are likely to be important. Because the gut microbiota can impact host digestive efficiency, we examined differences in activity budget, diet, and the gut microbial community among adult male ( …
Host age, social group, and habitat type influence the gut microbiota of wild ring‐tailed lemurs ( Lemur catta )
The gut microbiota contributes to host health by maintaining homeostasis, increasing digestive efficiency, and facilitating the development of the immune system. The composition of the gut microbiota can change dramatically within and between individuals of a species as a result of diet, age, or habitat. Therefore, understanding the factors determining gut microbiota diversity and composition can contribute to our knowledge of host ecology as wel…
Gut microbiome composition of wild western lowland gorillas is associated with individual age and sex factors
OBJECTIVES: Environmental and ecological factors, such as geographic range, anthropogenic pressure, group identity, and feeding behavior are known to influence the gastrointestinal microbiomes of great apes. However, the influence of individual host traits such as age and sex, given specific dietary and social constraints, has been less studied. The objective of this investigation was to determine the associations between an individual's age and …
Recast type, repair, and acquisition in AAC mediated interaction
The present study investigated the effects of different types of recasts and prompts on the rate of repair and spontaneous use of novel vocabulary by eight children with severe motor speech disabilities who used speech-generating technologies to communicate. Data came from 60 transcripts of clinical sessions that were part of a conversation-based intervention designed to teach them pronouns, verbs, and verb inflections. The results showed that, w…
Psychology (13 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (10 works) · Linguistics (9 works) · Language Development and Disorders (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Syntax (5 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (4 works) · Language development (4 works) · Biology (3 works)