There is epidemiologic evidence that antenatal and perinatal factors contribute to the development of specific language impairment. In a large study from Florida, Stanton-Chapman et al examined risk ...

Andrew Whitehouse receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australian Research Council. Language development is a truly remarkable phenomenon. But for a small ...

In the first molecular genetic study of families with a history of both language impairment and autism, scientists may have uncovered a shared origin for the two conditions, an important step toward ...

Recent studies aim at finding better ways to diagnose young children with language impairments. The work could lead to better treatments for individual children with communication disorders. Recent ...

Language impairment in children represents a multifaceted challenge that intricately intersects with cognitive development. Research indicates that conditions such as Developmental Language Disorder ...

Genes speak to each other in their own molecular dialect. By tracking one such conversation, scientists have identified a genetic relationship that may contribute to the common childhood language ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- A cross-cultural study of more than 200 children with a disorder called "specific language impairment" shows that a child's native language may have a lot to say about the ...

LAWRENCE — A study from the University of Kansas recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Brain Sciences identifies a new gene target related to Specific Language Impairment (SLI). The ...

Imagine if every conversation you had was like speaking with someone in a foreign language that you only partially understood. Your conversations—to the extent they could be called that—would be ...

Distinguished by its international recognition since 1958, Human Development publishes theoretical contributions and integrative reviews of lines of research in psychological development within ...

Our understanding of the neurobiology of specific language impairment has increased considerably over the past 10 years; however, a number of questions remain to be answered. Research in specific ...