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Genes, language development, and language disorders
Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2007AbstractGenetic factors are important contributors to language and learning disorders, and discovery of the underlying genes can help delineate the basic neurological pathways that are involved. This information, in turn, can help define disorders and their perceptual and processing deficits.
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Correlates of Language Development in Language-Disordered Children
Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1985This study organized a large data archive gathered over 8 years on 718 children with language disorders. Descriptive data categorized by demographic/background, physical/development, social/personality, and language/academic characteristics were analyzed to provide a broad description of this group of children.
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Disorders of Language Development
1978Children with average intelligence and without any auditory defects are expected to have a small vocabulary of 15–20 meaningful words by 18–20 months of age. By 2 years, most normal children can and do communicate their needs and wants. Speech development occurs earlier in girls than in boys, although boys show a greater rate of progress later on and ...
Stella Chess, Mahin Hassibi
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Mothers' Estimates of Their Children With Disorders of Language Development
Behavioral Medicine, 2005The authors' objective in this article was to explore the accuracy of mothers' estimates concerning their children's developmental functioning, especially with respect to vocabulary and gross motor development, by comparing the results of diagnostic tests administered to both the children and their mothers.
Ulrike, Willinger, Brigitte, Eisenwort
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Disorders of early language development in Dravet syndrome
Epilepsy & Behavior, 2016The aim of this study was to investigate language disorders prospectively in patients with Dravet syndrome (DS) during the first years of life in order to identify their features and possibly the underlying mechanisms of the disease. At the Child Neurology Unit of Catholic University in Rome (Italy), thirteen patients with typical findings of DS were ...
Chieffo, Daniela Pia +9 more
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New developments in the management of speech and language disorders
Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2008Speech and language disorders, which include swallowing difficulties, are usually managed by speech and language therapists. Such a diverse, complex and challenging clinical group of symptoms requires practitioners with detailed knowledge and understanding of research within those areas, as well as the ability to implement appropriate therapy ...
Celia, Harding, Sara, Gourlay
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Development and Disorders of Written Language
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1973Volume 1 under this title, published in 1965, was concerned mainly with the development of a "Picture Story Language Test." The present volume includes further analyses of the results for normal children and comparative findings for exceptional children: those with reading disability, mental retardation, social and emotional disturbance, speech ...
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Language Development and Language Disorders in Children and Adolescents
1981The first part of this chapter will provide an overview of the authors’ orientation; this will be followed by a second part on normal language development and then by a third part on language disorders. Thus the discussion of language disorders is the ultimate goal of this chapter.
Sheldon M. Frank, R. W. Rieber
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Written language development and disorders
Topics in Language Disorders, 1995Theories of writing development put forth by Bereiter (1980), Kroll (1981), and Perera (1984) are reviewed and presented as frameworks for practitioners working with language learning disabled (LLD) students. The theoretical notions presented are considered with regard to the assessment of written language, and selected written language intervention ...
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Language development and disorders: Possible genes and environment interactions
Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2018Language development requires both basic cognitive mechanisms for learning language and a rich social context from which learning takes off. Disruptions in learning mechanisms, processing abilities, and/or social interactions increase the risks associated with social exclusion or developmental delays.
Onnis L, Truzzi A, Ma X
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