Journal article
Language and cognitive outcomes in internationally adopted children
Development and psychopathology, v 23(2), pp 629-646
01 May 2011
PMID: 23786701
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Abstract
This study focuses on the association between language skills and core cognitive processes relative to the duration of institutionalization in children adopted from orphanages abroad. Participants in the adoptive group (n - 46) had arrived in the United States between the ages of 2 and 84 months (mean = 24 months), and had been living in the United States for 1-9 years. Drawing on both experimental and standardized assessments, language skills of the international adoptees differed as a function of length of time spent in an institution and from those of 24 nonadopted controls. Top-down cognitive assessments including measures of explicit memory and cognitive control differed between adopted and nonadopted children, yet differences between groups in bottom-up implicit learning processes were unremarkable. Based on the present findings, we propose a speculative model linking language and cognitive changes to underlying neural circuitry alterations that reflect the impact of chronic stress, due to adoptees' experience of noncontingent, nonindividualized caregiving. Thus, the present study provides support for a relationship between domain-general cognitive processes and language acquisition, and describes a potential mechanism by which language skills are affected by institutionalization.
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- Title
- Language and cognitive outcomes in internationally adopted children
- Creators
- Inge-Marie Eigsti - University of ConnecticutCarol Weitzman - Yale UniversityJillian Schuh - University of ConnecticutAshley de Marchena - Yale UniversityB. J. Casey - College Station Medical Center
- Publication Details
- Development and psychopathology, v 23(2), pp 629-646
- Publisher
- Cambridge Univ Press
- Number of pages
- 18
- Grant note
- R01 MH73175 / NIMH NIH HHS; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) R01MH073175 / NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- A.J. Drexel Autism Institute; Drexel University
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000290097900020
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-79956116062
- Other Identifier
- 991020099033504721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Psychology, Developmental