Children with Expressive Language Delay - created from Mind Map

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Personality

Temperament in Infantry

Nature vs Nurture

How do receptive skills affect onset of expressive language?

Overdiagnosis/Misdiagnosis

Introversion

Extraversion

How do you identify this quality in a child?

More likely to have ELD?

Less likely to have ELD?

If you could, what would be the validity of the finding?

Much more difficult than determining temperament

http://psych.colorado.edu/~colunga/p4684/temperament.pdf

Three Types

How do you identify this in a child?

Slow to Warm Up

Difficult

Easy

Especially interesting group...

More likely for ELD?

Why are they difficult?

How are their communication skills?

Expressive?

Receptive?

Talkative?

Better receptive skills?

Therefore observational skills lead to quicker onset of expressive language?

If you could, what would be the reliability of the finding?

Is it worth looking into?

Heritage

Environment

Would adding this debate to my research make my topic too broad?

How could I research this?

Biological

Psychological

Motherese

Receptive skills of the child play into this

Who has better receptive skills?

Introverts?

Extraverts?

Does receiving therapy at a young age for ELD have lasting effects on an individual's life?

How often is ELD over/mis-diagnosed...

Spontaneous Recovery

Because of temperament?

Because of personality?

Many children who are "late talkers" "spontaneously recover" after a while

Children who don't spontaneously recover continue to have language problems later into life

http://scholarworks.wmich.edu/honors_theses/2334/

A literary review, with many more research articles cited