Sentences with phrase «of language impairment»

Finally, for ease of interpretation, we opted for the ADOS Module classification as a measure of functional language in a sample where the majority of children had basal scores on formal language tests; this precluded a more fine - grained analysis of language impairment as a predictor variable.

«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.

«It's the first time we've been able to pin down a particular gene that's involved in common forms of language impairment,» says Fisher.

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

Not exact matches

It not only measures the speed of rapid number naming, thus capturing impairment of saccadic eye movements, but the test - taker's balance, attention, language and visual recognition skills.

Understanding deficit patterns very early, particularly speech and language delays, cognitive - intellectual deficits, sensory - motor impairments and a rough estimate of the «stage of psychological development or trauma» will help plot out the most appropriate treatment interventions.

Parents must understand that the «wait and see model» may not be the best and that if a child is showing a pattern of impairments in their native language and behaviorally, that immediate special educational and behavioral interventions should be implemented.

As Larry Leverenz, Ph.D, ATC, a co-author of the groundbreaking 2010 study (4) that was the first to identify such athletes noted, because such athletes have not suffered damage to areas of the brain associated with language and auditory processing, they are unlikely to exhibit clinical signs of head injury (such as headache or dizziness), or show impairment on sideline assessment for concussion, all of which test for verbal, not visual memory.

Signing helped as a tool in dealing with clinical situations and providing timely interventions in case of language delay or speech impairment.

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

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

As they get older, the children of depressed mothers may have language delays, behavior problems, and social impairments.

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

Many children experience physical or developmental delays, speech / language delays or impairments, emotional difficulties and many other types of unique struggles.

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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.

«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.

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

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 discovery could also potentially offer new avenues to help infants with problems such as hearing impairment that hinder the development of their language skills.

«It's a demanding occupation, and teachers may be more sensitive to the development of speech and language impairments.»

People with ASD can have varying levels of impairment across three common areas, which might include: deficits in social interactions and reciprocal understanding, repetitive behaviour and narrow interests, and impairment in language and communication.

«You need language for jobs, for negotiating with people, for problem - solving — so people with language impairments are at much greater risk of not being to get or maintain employment,» she says.

«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.

A new Concordia study goes further, however, focusing specifically on the effects of knowing a second language for patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI; a risk state for AD).

A new study published in the current issue of Biological Psychiatry, by researchers at Cardiff University School of Medicine and the University of Bristol, suggests that there is a spectrum of attention, hyperactivity / impulsiveness and language function in society, with varying degrees of these impairments associated with clusters of genes linked with the risk for ADHD.

In addition, the study found that impairments in executive functioning and language ability in particular predicted the severity of depressive symptoms after 12 months.

Speech or language impairments may not be the cause of more frequent tantrums in children with autism, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

After four years of follow - up evaluations, 200 participants were beginning to show mild cognitive impairment, problems with memory, language, thinking and judgment that are greater than normal age - related changes.

His cutesy - wounded affection for his son, who suffers a hearing impairment, doubles the maudlin factor and gives us the groan - inducing running motif of father and son gesturing the sign language for «I love you forever.»

Barriers to learning are removed by specialist teaching staff who are qualified teachers of hearing and multi-sensory impairment as well as specialist speech and language therapists who provide 1:1 sessions and group therapy.

Lesaux's research focuses on the reading development and the health and well - being of children who are at risk for learning difficulties, including children from language - minority and low socioeconomic backgrounds, and children with language impairments.

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

We find similarly large disparities in children's likelihood of being identified as having learning disabilities, speech or language impairments, other health impairments, and emotional disorders.

«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.

Other provisions that lend a more credible basis to the view that inclusive education has been promoted in the Act, are provisions such as Section 28 which provides for designing and developing new assistive devices, teaching aids, special teaching materials and other such items necessary to provide «equal opportunities in education'to a child with disability; and clauses (f), (g), (h) of Section 29, which provides for suitable modification in the examination system through elimination of purely mathematical questions for the benefit of blind students and those with low vision (f); restructuring of curriculum for the benefit of children with disabilities (g); restructuring the curriculum for benefit of students with hearing impairment to facilitate them to take only one language as part of their curriculum (h).

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.

The district classification rate for specific learning disability (SLD) and speech - language impairment (SLI) combined was no more than one percentage point above the state combined rate as reported in the fall of 2010 (approximately 9 %)

However, the authors of a new study say that minority students are less likely than similar white peers to be in one of five common disability categories — emotional disturbance, intellectual disability, «other health impairment,» specific learning disability, and speech and language impairment.

IDEA legislation defines this category of disability as referring to communication difficulties like stuttering, impaired articulation, or language / voice impairments that have a detrimental impact on a child's educational performance.

School - readiness profiles of children with language impairment: linkages to home and classroom experiences.

In New York City, thousands of students fall into one of three unique student population categories: English Language Learners, who speak a language other than English at home and score below proficient on English assessments when they enter the school system; District 75 students, who have significant cognitive and physical impairments and require a specialized school setting; and special education students, who have an identified disability and an individualized education plan.

PURPOSE The purpose of the present study was to determine whether kindergarten children with specific language impairment (SLI) could develop phonological awareness skills through computer

Impairment to language acquisition because of excessive noise during classroom instruction also can lead to deficits in reading skills according to a study by Evans, G. W. and Maxwell, L. First - and second - grade students exposed to chronic noise scored lower on standardized reading tests taken in quiet conditions.

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

PURPOSE Children with language impairment (LI) often perform below the level of typically developing peers on measures of both processing speed and working memory.

However, some children have problems in language development and demonstrate impairments in their use and / or understanding of spoken language.

Nevertheless, recent studies have begun to question whether incidental instruction through book reading may be substantial enough to significantly boost children's oral vocabulary development.19 Several meta - analyses, for example, have reported only small to moderate effects of book reading on vocabulary development.20 One group of researchers examined the added benefits of dialogic reading, an interactive reading strategy, on children's vocabulary growth and reported only modest gains for 2 - to 3 - year - olds.21 Further, these effects were reduced to negligible levels when children were 4 to 5 years old or when they were at risk for language and literacy impairments.

The large majority of students with disabilities are classified as having relatively mild disabilities like dyslexia, speech and language impairments and attention deficit disorders.