Language acquisition with limited input: Romanian institution and foster care
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Purpose: To provide the first detailed information about native language abilities of children who are or had been institutionalized. Method: The language of ten 30-month-old children raised in Romanian orphanages was compared with that of 30 chronological-age-matched peers: 10 children who had moved recently from orphanages to foster care, 10 children in foster families for at least 1 year, and 10 children raised in their biological families. Ten language measures were obtained from communication during play and from parent/caregiver report. Results: Children who were institutionalized and children in foster care for a brief time showed substantial language delays, with some of these children not yet producing intelligible words. Children in foster care for at least 1 year approximated the expressive output and receptive language of children who had never been institutionalized; however, they showed lower expressive grammatical abilities. Within the group of children who were institutionalized, the presence of a preferred caregiver and a measure of development, greater height, were associated with greater language output. Although children in orphanages produced fewer complex forms than children in biological families, there were no systematic qualitative differences in language structure across groups. Conclusion: Foster care facilitated language growth after substantial language delays associated with institutionalization.
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Foster care intervention in the BEIP is associated with increased language (e.g., word identification).
“↑ Language (e.g., word identification) (Windsor et al., 2007(Windsor et al., , 2011(Windsor et al., , 2013) )”
From Resilience following severe early life neglect: A review of longitudinal evidence from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (2026) · cites this paper as Windsor et al., 2007
Studies in this cohort have shown that although multiple areas of development are impaired among ever-institutionalized children, foster care placement leads to improvement in some areas but not in other areas, including motor function based on the results of the current study.
“Studies in this cohort have shown that although multiple areas of development are impaired among ever-institutionalized children, foster care placement leads to improvement in some areas (e.g. cognition,2,3 attachment,5,6,40, language7–9, depression, anxiety,10,12 stereotypies,11 and growth41) but not in other areas”
From Motor outcomes in children exposed to early psychosocial deprivation (2014) · cites this paper as [7]
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- Windsor, J., Glaze, L. E., Koga, S. F., & The Bucharest Early Intervention Project Core Group
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- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, Louisiana
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- Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
- Published
- 2007
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