SRCLD Presentation Details
  Title  
       
    An At-Home Enrichment with Late Talking and Typically Developing Children  
Author(s)
Lauren Goode - University of Colorado Boulder
Eliana Colunga - University of Colorado Boulder

SRCLD Info
SRCLD Year: 2016
Presentation Type: Poster Presentation
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Abstract
Smith and colleagues (2002) showed that after 9 weekly visits to the lab in which 17- month-old children repeatedly played with and heard names for members of unfamiliar object categories organized by shape, children generalized novel nouns by shape. These children showed a dramatic increase in acquisition of new object names outside of the laboratory during the course of the study. The present study attempted to influence children’s vocabularies with an at home enrichment by giving them themed boxes of toys and books about vehicles (organized by shape) and foods (organized by material and shape). The question is, will minimally altering children’s home environments change children’s vocabulary composition and word learning? Altogether these results show that it is possible to shift children’s vocabulary by minimally changing their environment. However, the effects of this shift on subsequent word learning may depend on initial vocabulary size of percentile.


This work was funded by NICHD grant R01 HD067315 to Eliana Colunga.