Children With Differing Developmental Trajectories of Prelinguistic Communica…

In this article, the authors examine the developmental continuity from prelinguistic communication to kindergarten age in language and working memory capacity.Method: Following work outlining 6 groups of children with different trajectories of early communication development (ECD; Määttä, Laakso, Tolvanen, Ahonen, & Aro, 2012), the authors examined their later development by psychometric ass…