Sentences with phrase «potential language delays»

This research extends the method into the realm of bilingual development and provides parents and practitioners with invaluable assessment tools (UKBTAT and LEQ) that are easy to use and capable of identifying potential language delays in bilingual two - year olds.

Untangling a potential language delay isn't just a challenge for doctors and developmental specialists, but also for schools, says Carolyn Murray - Slutsky, coauthor of Autism Interventions: Exploring the Spectrum of Autism and an occupational therapist for children with autism.

Not exact matches

However, there are common behaviors that may be signs of potential speech and language delays that you can watch out for.

Handheld screen time was associated with potential delays in expressive language, the team found.

This checklist is a screening tool that picks up potential signs of trouble; it doesn't offer a diagnosis of a language delay, points out study coauthor Catherine Birken, a pediatrician at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.

• Charting early gesture has the potential to serve as a diagnostic tool to identify children at risk for language delay.

Across 21st Avenue, in the department of special education at Peabody College, Paul Yoder has applied event - related potential (ERP), a way of measuring how the electrical activity of the brain changes in response to thoughts or perceptions, to evaluate ways to help children overcome language delays.

The clear social gradient associated with children's vocabulary, emerging literacy, well - being and behaviour is evident from birth to school entry.1 These trajectories track into adolescence and correspond to poorer educational attainment, income and health across the life course.2 — 10 Neuroimaging research extends the evidence for these suboptimal trajectories, showing that children raised in poverty from infancy are more likely to have delayed brain growth with smaller volumetric size of the regions particularly responsible for executive functioning and language.11 This evidence supports the need for further effort to redress inequities that arise from the impact of adversity during the potential developmental window of opportunity in early childhood.