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This meta-analysis examined whether there is a sex ratio difference in the risk for impairment among family members of an SLI proband

Early motor development is part of the resource mix for language acquisition - a commentary on Iverson's 'Developing language in a developing body: the relat...

In most individuals, language production and visuospatial skills are subserved predominantly by the left and right hemispheres, respectively.

We present a new analysis of Whitehouse, Maybery, and Durkin's (2006, Experiment 3) data on inner speech in children with autism (CWA).

Developmental language disorder is a heterogeneous diagnostic category. Little research has compared the long-term outcomes of children with different...

This study investigates the heritability of language, speech, and nonverbal cognitive development of twins at 4 and 6 years of age.

Delayed or impaired language development is a common developmental concern, yet there is little agreement about the criteria used to identify and classify...

While autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and specific language impairment (SLI) have traditionally been conceptualized as distinct disorders, recent findings...

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