Starting over : the language development in internationally-adopted children / edited by Fred Genesee ; Audrey Delcenserie.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Starting Over -The Language Development in Internationally-Adopted Children -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The present volume -- Summing up -- References -- Part II: General development -- Pre-adoption stress, adversity and later development in IA children -- Introduction -- Stress and adversity before entering institution -- Stress and adversity during institutionalization -- Lack of individualized care -- Limited access to learning opportunities -- Lack of adequate medical care -- IA children's pre-adoption adversity and post-adoption development -- Resilience in IA children with a history of early deprivation -- Conclusion and future directions -- References -- Children's cognitive development after adoption -- Introduction -- Natural experiments of adoption -- The English and Romanian adoptee study -- Cognitive development -- Effects of short versus prolonged deprivation. The retrospective Denver scores as reported by the parents -- at age 4 for the children who were adopted before their second birthday and at age 6 for the children who were adopted after their second birthday -- Catch-up over time. Despite these cognitive impairments, the adoptees showed improvement in their cognitive functioning after adoptive placement. More specifically, the children already showed remarkable catch-up between adoptive placement and their fourt -- School achievement -- The Greek Metera study -- Cognitive development -- School achievement -- Leiden Longitudinal Adoption Study -- Cognitive development -- School achievement -- Chinese adoptees in the Netherlands (CAN) -- Cognitive development -- Conclusions of the natural experiments -- The Bucharest Early Intervention Study -- Cognitive development -- Timing of foster care placement -- Follow-up -- Meta-analysis -- Executive functioning.

Laboratory tasks -- Questionnaires -- Conclusions -- Discussion -- References -- Part III: Language development -- Language development during the preschool years -- Introduction -- Birth language attrition -- Language development assessed using global measures -- Pragmatic development -- Phonological development -- Vocabulary development -- Results from caregiver reports -- Results from standardized norm-referenced tests -- Language sample measures -- Morphosyntactic development -- Conclusions -- References -- Language, cognitive, and academic abilities of school-age internationally-adopted children -- Introduction -- Language -- Phonology -- Vocabulary -- Grammar -- Self-assessments of language ability -- Bilingual acquisition by IA children -- Summary -- Memory and executive functions -- Memory -- Executive functions -- Educational achievement and special education services -- Other factors to consider -- Length of institutionalization -- Age at adoption -- Country of origin -- Comparison groups -- Conclusions -- Future directions -- References -- Long-term language development in international adoptees -- Assumptions about long-term language development -- Short- and medium-term language development -- Long-term language development -- Language proficiency in adult adoptees: Nativelike or near-native? -- Language development in specific domains -- Conclusion and future directions -- References -- Speech and language clinical issues in internationally-adopted children -- Introduction -- Language and speech outcomes of internationally-adopted children -- Using local norms to assess language and speech in internationally-adopted children -- Speech and language assessments and outcomes for children adopted internationally at different ages -- Children adopted at ages 0-11 months -- Children adopted at ages 12-17 months.

Children adopted at ages 18-23 months -- Children adopted at ages 2 -- 0 to 2 -- 11 years -- Children adopted at ages 3 -- 0 to 3 -- 11 years -- Children adopted at ages 4 -- 0 to 4 -- 11 years -- Children adopted at ages 5 -- 0 years and older -- Diagnostic considerations -- Diagnostic considerations: Vocabulary -- Diagnostic considerations: Syntax and grammar -- Diagnostic considerations: Verbal memory -- Diagnostic considerations: Attention -- Who qualifies for speech or language services? -- Support for struggling children -- Summary and conclusion -- References -- Language loss or retention in internationally-adopted children -- Introduction -- Language attrition in international adoptees -- Optimal periods for language development -- Effect of IA children's early experience on their adopted language -- Summary and conclusions -- Next steps -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index.

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