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How mums talk influences children’s perspective-taking abilityNew research shows that kids whose mums talk more frequently about others' thoughts tend to be better at taking another's perspective than other children.
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Reliability of a novel paradigm for determining hemispheric lateralization of visuospatial functionIn most individuals, language production and visuospatial skills are subserved predominantly by the left and right hemispheres, respectively.
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Qualitative aspects of developmental language impairment relate to language and literacy outcome in adulthoodDevelopmental language disorder is a heterogeneous diagnostic category. Little research has compared the long-term outcomes of children with different...
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Maternal serum vitamin D levels during pregnancy and offspring neurocognitive developmentThe objective was to determine the association between maternal serum 25(OH)-vitamin D concentrations and behavioural, emotional and language outcomes...
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Language, cognitive flexibility, and explicit false belief understanding: Longitudinal analysis in typical development and specific language impairmentThe current study sought to further investigate in 91 English-speaking typically developing children and 30 children with specific language impairment...
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The association between perinatal testosterone concentration and early vocabulary developmentPrenatal exposure to testosterone is known to affect fetal brain maturation and later neurocognitive function.
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Fetal head circumference growth in children with specific language impairmentThe aim was to characterise fetal brain growth in children with specific language impairment (SLI). A nested case-control study was set in Perth, WA.
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Genome-Wide Analyses of Vocabulary Size in Infancy and Toddlerhood: Associations With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Literacy, and Cognition-Related TraitsThe number of words children produce (expressive vocabulary) and understand (receptive vocabulary) changes rapidly during early development, partially due to genetic factors. Here, we performed a meta-genome-wide association study of vocabulary acquisition and investigated polygenic overlap with literacy, cognition, developmental phenotypes, and neurodevelopmental conditions, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.
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Discovery of 42 genome-wide significant loci associated with dyslexiaReading and writing are crucial life skills but roughly one in ten children are affected by dyslexia, which can persist into adulthood. Family studies of dyslexia suggest heritability up to 70%, yet few convincing genetic markers have been found.
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Funding boost to help researchers better understand how language developsTelethon Kids Institute researchers have been awarded an Australian Research Council grant to explore how testosterone levels in the womb can impact on a child'