Temporal Responsiveness in Mother–Child Dialogue: A Longitudinal Analysis of Children with Normal Hearing and Hearing Loss

Nicholas A. Smith; Bob McMurray

doi:10.1111/infa.12227

Temporal Responsiveness in Mother–Child Dialogue: A Longitudinal Analysis of Children with Normal Hearing and Hearing Loss

Nicholas A. Smith, Bob McMurray

Perceptual Development Laboratory

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Dialogue between conversational partners, including mothers and their children, is precisely timed. The predictability of this timing is important for establishing and maintaining interaction, communication, and learning. This longitudinal study examines changes in the response latency of utterances in dialogue between mothers and their normal hearing and hearing-impaired children between 4 and 60 months of age. Mothers and their children showed parallel developmental trends, responding to each other more quickly at older ages. Beyond these age-related group effects, significant dyadic effects were found in which individual children's latencies were related to those of their mothers, and vice versa. Developmental patterns did not significantly differ across hearing status groups, which may reflect the role of early identification and intervention in promoting positive developmental outcomes.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	410-431
Number of pages	22
Journal	Infancy
Volume	23
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12227
State	Published - May 1 2018

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Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
Developmental and Educational Psychology

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