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In most individuals, language production and visuospatial skills are subserved predominantly by the left and right hemispheres, respectively.
Some individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) experience linguistic difficulties similar to those found in individuals with specific language...
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).
Language is a robust developmental phenomenon, characterised by rapid and prodigious growth.
Variation in receptive vocabulary ability is associated with variation in children's school achievement, and low receptive vocabulary ability is a risk...
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...
The idea of the '30 million word gap' suggests families from more socioeconomically advantaged backgrounds engage in more verbal interactions with their child than disadvantaged families. Initial findings from the Language in Little Ones (LiLO) study up to 12 months showed no word gap between maternal education groups.
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...
Prenatal exposure to testosterone is known to affect fetal brain maturation and later neurocognitive function.
A new study by The Kids Research Institute Australia has found current early intervention programs are failing to identify a large proportion of children with language an