Social communication skills uniquely predict kindergarten executive functions after accounting for vocabulary, which does not predict EF¶

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q3 i? Initial levels (β = .19, p < .05) and rate of growth (β = .29, p < .001) in social communication skills predicted kindergarten EF, while vocabulary level (β = .14, p = .15) and growth (β = .02, p = .84) did not. → Ramsook K. Ashana 2020

Evidence¶

Ramsook K. Ashana 2020¶

Ramsook K. Ashana, Welsh Janet A., Bierman Karen L. (2020). What you say, and how you say it: Preschoolers' growth in vocabulary and communication skills differentially predict kindergarten academic achievement and self‐regulation. Social Development, 29(3), 783–800. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12425

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Multilevel models predicting Wave 3 EF composite (Backward Word Span, Peg Tapping, Dimensional Change Card Sort) in 164 Head Start children. In the best-fitting model, "rate of growth in social communication skills significantly predicted EF at Wave 3" while vocabulary did not.

"Similarly, rate of growth in social communication skills significantly predicted EF at Wave 3 (β = .29, SE = .37, p < .001), but growth in vocabulary was not associated with EF at Wave 3 (β = .02, SE = .04, p = .84)."

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