Language:
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The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test [94]
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receptive vocabulary
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The Bus Story Test [95, 96] – used at pretesting
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lexical diversity (number of word types used); information score (how many events a child included in the narratives), syntactic complexity (number of subordinate clauses), morphological complexity (amount of well-formed utterances), and text length (total number of clauses)
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Frog, Where Are You? [97,98,99] – used at post-testing
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lexical diversity (number of word types used); information score (how many events a child included in the narratives), syntactic complexity (number of subordinate clauses), morphological complexity (amount of well-formed utterances), and text length (total number of clauses)
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What’s Wrong Cards [100]a
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productive vocabulary, observation skills and created in order to develop emotional literacy
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Communicationb:
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An adapted version of ADOS [101]
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meeting of gaze, adequate use of gestures, at ease body behavior, fluency/prosodic traits, following instructions, turn-taking behavior, and taking initiative/showing curiosity
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Executive functions:
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The Dimensional Change Card Sort task (DCCS [59, 102])
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cognitive flexibility/attention shifting (possibly working memory as well)
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The Flanker Fish Task [103,104,105]
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inhibition
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The Head-Shoulder-Knees-Toes (HSKT, [106])
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inhibition, focused attention, and working memory
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Forward and Backward Digit Span [107]
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short term memory, storage capacity, working memory
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Auditory selective attention was measured using event related potentials (ERPs) to attended and unattended probe sounds embedded in stories, i.e. the Swedish AUDAT paradigm
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ability to attend to one story while ignoring another simultaneously presented story
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Emotional Comprehension:
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Test of Emotion Comprehension [108, 109]
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socioemotional comprehension, ability to recognize facial expressions (drawn faces) of emotions related to different stories read to the child by the test leader
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Math:
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An adapted version of the Number Sense Screener [110,111,112]
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one-to-one correspondence, number sense cardinality, ordinality and subitizing
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