Sentences with phrase «language impairment»

Thinking aloud: effects on text comprehension by children with specific language impairment and their peers.

Other studies have linked insufficient levels of vitamin D during pregnancy with language impairment in children at 5 and 10 years of age.

To determine risk and protective factors for speech and language impairment in early childhood.

A study on language impairment at school entry age, and how we can better identify, diagnose and treat language disorders.

Childhood language impairment used to be seen as an early years difficulty, with children catching up gradually as they got older.

Led by Professor Norbury, SCALES is the first UK population study of risk for language impairment at school entry.

LaVigne's presentation focused on the relationship between language impairments among defendants and false confessions.

Percentage of students labeled with a speech or language impairment aged 16 - to - 21 leaving special ed with a diploma.

The types of supports and services provided can vary a great deal from student to student, just as speech - language impairments do.

«Young people who suffer from language impairments are not easy to notice», says Professor Gina Conti - Ramsden, Professor of Child Language and Learning at Manchester University.

«The ideal solution would be to measure their skills in their first language to gauge whether the issue is from lack of exposure to English or a general language impairment, but that isn't feasible given the diversity of home languages spoken by children in the UK.

In 2012 psychologist Jarrad A. G. Lum of Deakin University in Australia and his colleagues (including one of us, Ullman) examined 51 children with SLI and 51 children without language impairment.

«The ideal solution would be to measure their skills in their first language to gauge whether the issue is from lack of exposure to English or an underlying language impairment, but that isn't feasible given the diversity of home languages spoken by children in the UK.

Working with three - year - old German children, researchers from the University of Sussex in the UK and Germany's Paderborn University discovered pre-school children with language impairment learned more new words through repetition.

Follow - up study investigating the benefits of phonological awareness intervention for children with spoken language impairment.

Dysgraphia may occur alone or with dyslexia (impaired reading disability) or with oral and written language learning disability (OWL LD, also referred to as selective language impairment, SLI).

After trying the Fast ForWord language and reading intervention with her son to address auditory processing and language impairment issues, she saw his reading skill level improve eight months in only three months» time.

Possessing full knowledge of learning disabilities, I am proficient in assisting children and young adults with faculties that will assist them in managing language impairments, autism, combined deafness and even traumatic brain injury.

More importantly, the language abilities of children with Down syndrome have been found to be even more delayed than would be expected from their overall level of cognitive functioning, indicating a form of specific speech and language impairment relative to their non-verbal mental age (Buckley 2002; Laws 2003; Niccols 2002; Vicari 2000).

[jounal] McCabe, P. C. / 2004 / The relationship between language and social competence: How language impairment affects social growth / Psychology in the Schools 41 (3): 313 ~ 321

People who have trouble remembering and repeating nonsense words like these have a common speech and language disorder called specific language impairment (SLI).

«This study is an important scratch on the surface of the genetics of language impairment,» says Mabel Rice, a leading researcher of language disorders and genetics at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

Led by Professor Norbury, SCALES is the first UK population study of risk for language impairment at school entry.

Few treatments for language impairments have been developed, White said, because scientists have only a poor understanding of the molecular basis for vocal communication.

[jounal] Tomblin, J. B. / 2000 / The asociation of reading disability, behavioral disorders, and language impairment among second - grade children / Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 41: 473 ~ 482

Making sense of it: a brief programme to improve reading comprehension in adolescents with language impairments in main stream school.

For instance, some individuals plagued with language impairments in school become fluent and articulate speakers and have phenomenal reading comprehension by the age of thirty.

A considerable amount of language processing appears to occur in the left hemisphere, and brain damage in these areas can result in quite specific language impairments.

All children with Autism have some type of language impairment and they need speech therapy.

She specializes in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of children with developmental delays, regulatory disorders and language impairment, specifically autism, Asperger's Disorder and Pervasive Developmental Disorder, not otherwise specified.

These include social communication and language impairment, lack of joint attention, and repetitive behaviors.

Patterns of behavior and symptoms can fall into many overlapping categories — Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or Complex Trauma, Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), Attention Deficit, Hyperactivity Disorder (ADD & ADHD), Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD), Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), Autism, Grief, speech & language impairment, learning disabilities and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD).

-- Talk to other parents whose children have a similar speech or language impairment.

-- Learn the specifics of your child's speech or language impairment.

It's important to realize that a language delay isn't the same thing as a speech or language impairment.

In the Manchester Language Study, individuals first identified as having a language impairment at 7 years of age were followed up at 8, 11, 16, 17 and 23 years to explore the impact of communication difficulties on their everyday lives.

Specific language impairment (SLI) is a common disorder affecting five to seven per cent of the population.

In order to investigate the effects that having SLI in childhood can have on young adults, Professor Conti - Ramsden began the largest, longest running UK study involving young people with a language impairment.

Professor Conti - Ramsden will discuss her findings from the Manchester Language Study at an event entitled «Growing up with a language impairment» on the 6 November.

Event: growing up with a language impairment Organiser: Dr Nicola Botting, City University London and Manchester Language Study Date: 6 November 2013 17.00 - 20.00 Venues: City University London, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB Audience: Professionals More Information: please contact Dr Botting as above The Festival of Social Science is run by the Economic and Social Research Council and takes place from 2 - 9 November 2013.

Neither program had a measurable impact on behavioral - emotional disabilities or the less malleable categories of physical disability and speech - language impairment.

Researchers are using eye - tracking technology to learn more about children afflicted with specific language impairment

Researchers use eye - tracking software to peek inside a child's mind when words fail, reading eye patterns to understand language production and combat conditions such as specific language impairment.

Such delays are associated with speech and language impairments at age 2, the researchers found.

Indeed, research suggests that it not only remains largely intact but also compensates for diverse impairments in five common conditions that are rarely studied in conjunction: autism spectrum disorder, obsessive - compulsive disorder (OCD), Tourette's syndrome, dyslexia and developmental language disorder (which is often referred to as specific language impairment, or SLI).