Blicket for Pc

1. Research has shown that children typically demonstrate the shape bias between learning their 50th to 100th object word (Greshkoff-Stowe & Smith, 2004), after which point, their vocabulary growth accelerates.

2. Help your toddler learn an important principle of language with this research-based game! Blicket guides children towards the shape bias: the idea that two objects with the same name tend to have the same shape, as opposed to the same color or texture.

3. After two months, the researchers found that children who received this shape training in the context of learning novel object names experienced a 300% vocabulary growth compared to children who did not receive this training.

4. Individual differences in the shape bias in preschool children with specific language impairment and typical language development: Theoretical and clinical implications.

5. (2002) brought 17 month olds into the lab and helped them practice a shape matching task, where a child saw a novel object, “blicket”, and was asked to find another “blicket” that matched in shape, while ignoring distractors that matched in color or texture.

6. The shape bias is an example of an L2L principle that helps children learn how to learn new object words.

7. Guiding 18-month-old children towards the shape bias can accelerate their vocabulary by 300% over a two month period (Smith et al., 2002).

8. Moreover, children who are late talkers and those with Specific Language Impairment have a weaker shape bias (Jones, 2003).

9. What happens if you guide children towards the shape bias earlier than they naturally acquire it? Smith et al.

10. Children see these interventions as touchscreen games, but they’re backed by cutting edge research on how children acquire early language and math skills.

11. Late talkers show no shape bias in a novel name extension task.

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