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This study investigates relationships between methyl-CpG-binding protein 2 gene (MECP2) mutation type and speech-language abilities in girls with Rett syndrome.
Although genetic factors are known to play a causal role in specific language impairment (SLI), environmental factors may also be important. This study...
Commentary on Bishop, D. V. M., Ten questions about terminology for children with unexplained language problems.
Children who enter school with limited proficiency in the language of instruction face a range of challenges in negotiating this new context, yet limited...
Unmet language and literacy needs are common among young people who are involved with youth justice systems. However, there is limited research regarding the functional text-level language skills of this population with regard to narrative macrostructure (story grammar) and microstructure (semantics and syntax) elements. In this study, we examined macrostructure and microstructure elements in the oral and written narrative texts of 24 adolescent students of a youth detention centre. The students, who were aged 14- to 17- years, were all speakers of Standard Australian English, and 11 (46%) students met criteria for language disorder (LD).
This study investigated the associations between clusters of early life risk factors and developmental vulnerability in children's first year of full-time school at age 5
These results show that a word gap related to maternal education is not apparent up to twelve months of age
Variation in receptive vocabulary ability is associated with variation in children's school achievement, and low receptive vocabulary ability is a risk...
Prenatal exposure to testosterone is known to affect fetal brain maturation and later neurocognitive function.
The current study investigated the extent to which low levels of joint attention in infancy and parent-child book reading across early childhood increase the...