Sentences with phrase «similar language deficit»

Now Cecilia Lai, Simon Fisher and colleagues, reporting in todays Nature, show that a gene on chromosome 7, which they call FOXP2, is mutated in the affected members of the KE family, as well as in an unrelated patient with a similar language deficit.

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Reading research, he observes, has long shown that a key aspect of dyslexia is the child's difficulty in understanding the sounds of language — a deficit that is similar to the faulty number sense seen in dyscalculia.