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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...
The present study investigated the relations among fetal testosterone, child socio-emotional engagement and language development...
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...
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.
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
Language is a robust developmental phenomenon, characterised by rapid and prodigious growth.