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Genome-wide association study of receptive language ability of 12 year olds [PDF]

, 2013
Purpose: We have previously shown that individual differences in measures of receptive language ability at age 12 are highly heritable. The current study attempted to identify some of the genes responsible for the heritability of receptive language ...
Hanscombe, K.B., Meaburn, Emma L, Dale, Philip S, Plomin, Robert, Hayiou-Thomas, Marianna E, Jankowski, Janusz, Haworth, Claire M.A., Trzaskowski, M., Haworth, C., Haworth, Claire M. A., Hayiou-Thomas, Marianna E., Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium (including Jankowski J), Harlaar, N., Haworth, Claire M A, Dale, Philip S., Dale, P., Harlaar, Nicole, Price, T.S, Price, Thomas S, Docherty, Sophia, Hayiou-Thomas, M.E., Davis, Oliver S. P., Plomin, R., Meaburn, Emma L., Price, Tom S., HASH(0x55a67fe4f3e8), Hanscombe, Ken B., ?, ?, Davis, O.S.P., Docherty, S.J., Price, Thomas S., Trzaskowski, Maciej, Davis, Oliver S P   +32 more
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Supporting students who struggle with language [PDF]

, 2010
This chapter considers children who have speech, language and communication difficulties. These can arise from insufficient quality or quantity of language experience, or they may arise developmentally, despite appropriate language input from families ...
Ellis, Sue, McCartney, Elspeth
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Untrained listeners’ ratings of speech disorders in a group with cleft palate : a comparison with speech and language pathologists’ ratings

, 2008
Background: Hypernasal resonance, audible nasal air emission and/or nasal turbulence, and articulation errors are typical speech disorders associated with the speech of children with cleft lip and palate.
Brunnegård, Karin, Lohmander, Anette,, Lohmander, Anette, van Doorn, Jan,, Brunnegård, Karin,, van Doorn, J   +5 more
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Pragmatic aspects of communication and language comprehension in groups of children differentiated by teacher ratings of inattention and hyperactivity. [PDF]

, 2007
Children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience pragmatic language deficits, but it is not known whether these difficulties are primarily associated with high levels of inattention, hyperactivity, or both.
Cain, Kate, Bignell, Simon
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Language Abilities in Monolingual- and Bilingual- Exposed Children with Autism or Other Developmental Disorders

Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2018
Background: Parents and providers are sometimes concerned that exposure to two languages will impair language acquisition in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or other developmental disorders (DD).
Yael G. Dai, Jeffrey D. Burke, Letitia R. Naigles, Inge-Marie Eigsti, D. Fein   +4 more
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Five-Year-olds' Acoustic Realization of Mandarin Tone Sandhi and Lexical Tones in Context Are Not Yet Fully Adult-Like

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018
Large numbers of children around the world are learning tone languages, but few studies have examined the acoustic properties of children's early tone productions.
Nan Xu Rattanasone, Nan Xu Rattanasone, Nan Xu Rattanasone, Ping Tang, Ping Tang, Ivan Yuen, Ivan Yuen, Ivan Yuen, Liqun Gao, Katherine Demuth, Katherine Demuth, Katherine Demuth   +11 more
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Neural Correlates of Developmental Speech and Language Disorders: Evidence from Neuroimaging

Current Developmental Disorders Reports, 2014
Disorders of speech and language arise out of a complex interaction of genetic, environmental, and neural factors. Little is understood about the neural bases of these disorders.
F. Liégeois, Angela K Mayes, A. Morgan
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The history of written language disorders: reexamining Pitres’ case (1884) of pure agraphia

, 2003
The first clinical description of pure agraphia was reported by the French neurologist Pitres in 1884. Pitres used the case study evidence to argue for modality-specific memory representations and the localization of writing.
Barrière, I., Isabelle Barrière, Marjorie Perlman Lorch, Lorch, Marjorie   +3 more
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Language acquisition in developmental disorders

, 2010
In this chapter, I review recent research into language acquisition in developmental disorders, and the light that these findings shed on the nature of language acquisition in typically developing children.
Thomas, Michael S.C.
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Literacy and mental disorders [PDF]

, 2006
Purpose of review: This review examines recent evidence on the comorbidity between literacy problems and psychiatric disorder in childhood and discusses possible contributory factors.
Carroll, Julia M., Maughan, Barbara, Carroll, Julia; id_orcid   +2 more
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