Goussak, Ashley Rose2018-12-152018-12-152018-03https://hdl.handle.net/1794/2400949 pages. Presented to the Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences and the Robert D. Clark Honors College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science June 2018The purpose of this study is to describe the electronic media exposure of young children from Mexican immigrant backgrounds in their home and to investigate the association between media exposure and children’s vocabulary development. Thirty children between the ages of 15 and 24 months participated. Audio recordings of children’s home environment were completed and information on children's productive vocabulary was collected. The electronic media captured on the audio recordings was categorized by frequency (i.e., percentage of total minutes of recording time), type of programming (i.e., child directed versus adult directed, cartoons, or educational child-directed media), and language (i.e., Spanish or English). These characteristics of children’s media exposure were described. Then, the association of these characteristics to children’s English and Spanish productive vocabulary was examined through nonparametric, rank order correlation analyses. The findings indicated that children were more likely to be exposed to adult directed electronic media rather than child directed media and were more likely to be exposed to programs in Spanish than English. No significant associations were found between children’s vocabulary and any characteristic of electronic media exposure for toddlers from these backgrounds.en-USCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USElectronic media on Languaged acquasitionToddlersVocabulary aquasitionEarly languageBilingual Spanish-EnglishSpeech-language pathologyMexican backgroundThesis/Dissertation