Jenny A. Roberts
Hofstra University
19 Papers
296 Citations
Jenny A. Roberts is an academic researcher from Hofstra University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Reading (process) & Language acquisition. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 18 publications.
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Papers
Language development in preschool-age children adopted from China.
TL;DR: The results of this study demonstrate both the robustness of the language system in the majority of adopted children from China as well as slower growth in a small subset of lower performers in the 1st years after adoption.
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How well do children who are internationally adopted acquire language? A meta-analysis.
TL;DR: The meta-analysis found that as a group, the children expressed great variability in their language skills, and were more likely to have poorer language outcomes than comparison children, but several moderating variables were found.
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Oral and written language development of children adopted from china.
TL;DR: These findings provide an encouraging outlook on the oral and written language outcomes of internationally adopted children from China through the early elementary grades and support earlier research that speaks to the resiliency and robustness of language acquisition abilities in children.
Adoption Age Effects on English Language Acquisition: Infants and Toddlers from China
TL;DR: The results showed that the older children (toddlers) were at both an advantage and a disadvantage when it came to English language development, and there was, however, no evidence to suggest that the language switch from a Chinese- to an English-language environment was a formidable obstacle for either the infants or the toddlers.
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The Simple View of Reading: Assessment and Intervention.
TL;DR: The Simple View of Reading as mentioned in this paper provides a relatively transparent model that can be used by professionals not only to understand the development of reading, but also to assess and treat reading difficulties.
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