title: [Haptic perception and language development assessment in kindergarten and pre-school children].
abstract: In a study with 101 children aged 3 to 5 years expressive vocabulary, morpho-syntactical language skills, and tactile-kinesthetic/haptic perception (stereognosis of object properties, object stereognosis) were assessed. Substantial correlations were found between tactile-kinesthetic/haptic perception and the selected language facets. Age differences in expressive language skills remained significant even when tactile-kinesthetic/haptic perception was partialized out. On the contrary, age differences in tactile-kinesthetic/haptic perception were partially eliminated when language skills were controlled for. The results are discussed with regard to the role of the tactile-kinesthetic/haptic senses in language development.
authors.affiliation: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Georg-Elias-Müller-Institut für Psychologie, Abt. 4: Pädagogische Psychologie und Entwicklungspsychologie, Waldweg 26, 37073 Göttingen. britta.goetze@freenet.de
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Götze
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kiese-Himmel
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hasselhorn
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D002657:Child Development; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007804:Language Development; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D002666:Psychology, Child; D012494:Sampling Studies; D013236:Stereognosis