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Use of situational cues by preschool children

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Pictures often are used in language intervention programs to elicit selected linguistic constructions or to teach concepts to children below the age of 5 years. However, preschool children frequently are egocentric in their perceptions and in their language, and are unable to view a situation from a perspective other than their own. This study presented children who were in Piaget's preoperational period of development with pictures accompanied by a one-word descriptive phrase and asked the children to explain what was meant by the utterance. It was found that the younger child generally was more egocentric in his interpretations, and his reponsses reflected less attention to the situational cues present in the picture. The results are discussed in light of common clinical practices of using pictorial stimuli for children with language problems.

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  1. Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, The University of Nebraska, 68583, Lincoln, Nebraska

    Sheldon L. Stick & Janet A. Norris

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Stick, S.L., Norris, J.A. Use of situational cues by preschool children. J Psycholinguist Res 8, 111–121 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01067486

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