Using a multimodal assessment, this study examined parent-child interaction and behavior problems in a clearly defined subgroup of language-impaired children, those with developmental expressive language disorder (ELD). These children exhibit a delay in expressive language compared with receptive language ...
Developmental language disorder is characterized by persistent difficulties arising during early childhood in the acquisition, understanding, production, or use of language which causes significant limitations in the ability to communicate. From: Positive Mental Health, Fighting Stigma and Promoting Resiliency...
No. 12/359,124 entitled “System And Method For Expressive Language, Developmental Disorder, And Emotion Assessment” filed on Jan. 23, 2009, which is a continuation in part of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 12/109,785 entitled “System And Method For Expressive Language Development” ...
The concept of specific developmental disorder (SDD) refers to developmental delays that cannot be explained in terms of intellectual retardation, physical handicap, or adverse environmental conditions. For example, the diagnosis 'specific developmental expressive language disorder' implies that children (...
Developmental language disorder (DLD) affects the ability to acquire and make use of native language. Possible underlying cognitive mechanisms are related to memory functions. Aims The aim was examination of the relationship between visual short-term memory of objects as well as audiovisual short-term...
Developmental language disorder (DLD) is characterised by difficulties with expressive and receptive language, impacting individuals’ everyday lives and social interactions [1]. It is estimated to affect 7.6% of children [2]. As with other neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs), the difficulties of chil...
An auditory perception deficit is therefore likely to affect the normal course of language acquisition. To test this hypothesis, we studied the BAEPs in 25 preschool boys with an expressive developmental language disorder and 12 boys with a history of stuttering. These children had no hearing ...
DLD is a language disorder with no obvious cause, such as cerebral palsy, autism or hearing impairment. Scientists think the part of the brain responsible for speech and language development may be wired differently, but the differences are too subtle to show up on a brain scan. ...
Participants were 692 typically developing children (TD) and 53 children with developmental language disorder (DLD) and they were tested with a standardized test of oral Cantonese, which includes measures on listening comprehension, receptive and expressive grammar, expressive vocabulary, word definition ...
While only four of six individuals showed delayed motor development, speech/language development was delayed in all of them. All six individuals had received speech therapy and two individuals had a formal diagnosis of expressive language disorder. Despite having shown prominent speech delays in ...