Sentences with phrase «disorders process language»

«It is this divide in language skills and use, which mirrors the opposite social profiles, that led us to explore how brains of individuals with Williams syndrome and autistic spectrum disorders process language,» says Fishman.

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There's help for children who have delayed or disordered speech or language development, apraxia of speech and other articulation difficulties, and other issues that slow down this developmental process.
Hello - I am a speech language pathologist and have worked with many children with sensory processing disorders and feeding disorders.
More studies are necessary to fully assess speech / language abnormalities and Selective Mutism as well as processing disorders and Selective Mutism.
The added stress of the speech / language disorder, learning disability, or processing disorder may cause the child to feel that much more anxious and insecure or uncomfortable in situations where there is an expectation to speak.
There, he worked with Annette Karmiloff - Smith, an expert in developmental neurocognition who had recently received a grant to study number processing in children with Williams syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that can lead to a puzzling cognitive profile: a relative strength in language coupled with severe deficiencies in visual - spatial cognition and number processing.
Results from a series of studies involving thousands of participants from birth to age 90 suggest that the brain's ability to process sound is influenced by everything from playing music and learning a new language to aging, language disorders and hearing loss.
People with intermittent explosive disorder (IED), or impulsive aggression, have a weakened connection between regions of the brain associated with sensory input, language processing and social interaction.
«Traditional ways we have of assessing kids can only tell you the end product of a very complicated process,» says Courtenay Norbury, a professor of developmental language and communication disorders at University College London who has used Tobii eye - tracking technology to study children with language development disorders, including SLI and autism.
Children with SLI — also called developmental language disorder — can hear just fine but have difficulty processing the meaning of spoken words.
A new model of this reading disorder emphasizes defects in the language - processing rather than the visual system.
Rather than playing recordings for healthy babies, Partanen sees potential treatments for children at risk for dyslexia or auditory processing disorders, if hearing certain sounds in pregnancy turns out to speed up language learning — «but that's a big if.»
«This lack of synchronization with frontal regions in ASD — an impairment in brain connectivity — may lead to symptoms of the disorder that involve processes that require brain coordination between frontal and other areas, such as language processing and social interaction,» Just explained.
Brainwave activity associated with language processing differs sharply in two disorders with opposite social profiles: autism and Williams syndrome.
LA JOLLA, CA — People with Williams syndrome — known for their indiscriminate friendliness and ease with strangers — process spoken language differently from people with autism spectrum disorders — characterized by social withdrawal and isolation — found researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
He defined LD as «a retardation, disorder, or delayed development in one or more of the processes of speech, language, reading, spelling, writing, or arithmetic resulting from a possible cerebral dysfunction and not from mental retardation, sensory deprivation, or cultural or instructional factors.»
According to the National Center of Learning Disabilities, a learning disability is «a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, which disorder may manifest itself in the imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, read, write, spell, or do mathematical calculations».
However there are some children who, despite adequate exposure to language, still present with delayed language skills; either because they have hearing problems or an underlying disorder affecting the processing of language, or additional special educational needs.
Cambry has a processing and language disorder, but never received dyslexia therapy services that would have benefited her.
During the assessment process, examiners look for evidence of the disorder and also rule out other factors that could be causing the student's reading and language problems.
This study was funded by the Children's Foundation and involved measuring the relationship between brain processing of speech sounds, nonverbal emotion recognition, and other social - emotional comprehension skills in both typically - developing children and children with a range of clinical diagnoses (e.g., ASD, ADHD, reading disorders, language disorders) who are in grades K - 3.
Disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes (memory, auditory perception, visual perception, oral language, and thinking).
Provide remediation services to adolescents (ages 13 - 21) with language, learning, and social difficulties including receptive and expressive language disorders, autism spectrum disorders, cognitive impairments, and auditory processing disorders.
«Children with special learning disabilities exhibit a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using spoken or written language.
If your child has a language - based learning difficulty — such as dyscalculia, dyslexia, and auditory processing disorder — they may have to work twice as hard to keep up with their peers in school.
Our team have expertise working with children with generalized social / behavioral concerns, speech and language delays, broad - based developmental delays, sensory processing disorders, autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and ADD / ADHD.
They have taken the treatment of anxiety disorders far beyond the disease model that CBT has been stuck in by brilliantly examining the core psychological processes that make fear and anxiety disordered and explaining in clear language what all anxiety disorders have in common.
She is experienced in assessing and treating children with articulation disorders, elementary and school - age language disorders (auditory / language processing, receptive / expressive language delay, word retrieval), myofunctional disorders, fluency and voice disorders.
Her areas of expertise include child language delays and disorders, articulation and phonological delays and disorders, social language / pragmatics delays (often seen with autism spectrum disorders), stuttering and fluency disorders, and auditory processing.
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