Suvi-Maria Vehkavuori|Maiju Kämäräinen|Suvi Stolt
Early receptive and expressive lexicons and language and pre-literacy skills at 5;0 years – A longitudinal study
University of Oulu|University of Helsinki|University of Helsinki
longterm associations early receptiveexpressive lexical skills later languagepreliteracy skills require clarificationto study association predictive values early receptiveexpressive lexical skills languagepreliteracy skills 50 years examine language profiles 50 years children weak receptive languageexpressive lexical skills 20 yearsthe participants 66 monolingual children lexical skills measured using finnish shortform version macarthurbates communicative development inventories 16 20 years receptive language skills measured 20 years using reynell developmental language scales iii broader assessment 50 years measured lexical phonological morphological preliteracy skillssignificant associations receptiveexpressive lexical skills 16 years language preliteracy skills 50 years found receptive language expressive lexical development measured 20 years greatly relatively evenly associated language preliteracy skills 50 years lexiconlanguage variables 16 years 20 years statistically significant predictive values general language preliteracy scores 50 years best models included early lexical predictors explained 2034 later languageliteracy outcome weak skills 20 years proposed vulnerability language preliteracy skills 50 yearslanguage preliteracy skills 50 years extent explained early receptive language andor expressive lexical development assessment andor followup important children weak languagelexical skills 20 years