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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"language disorder"”.
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The economic impact of childhood developmental language disorder
… the economic impact of childhood developmental language disorder (DLD) on individuals, families and society, using a national Australian panel data set of 10,000 children—the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC). The thesis comprises four studies. The first study investigates …
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Speech Production and Developmental Language Disorder in Children
Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a spoken language disorder in which children have difficulties in learning, understanding, and using spoken language. It is considered a neurodevelopmental disorder, even though no agreed sensory or neural causes have been identified. Research has found that …
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Rhythmic Sensitivity and Developmental Language Disorder in Children
Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) have difficulties in acquiring language in the absence of other neurodevelopmental issues (e.g. autism, hearing impairment) and despite growing up in an adequate language-learning environment. Previous characterisations of DLD have focused on …
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Evaluation of a Screening Battery for Developmental Language Disorder
Students with developmental language disorder (DLD) have difficulty understanding and using oral language, and these difficulties negatively impact academic achievement. DLD has a prevalence of 7-8% of school-age students, yet research has shown that less than half of those students are receiving …
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Peer relationships and the wellbeing of children with Developmental Language Disorder
Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) have difficulties expressing or understanding language without having any other neurodevelopmental condition or physical impairment. DLD places affected children at risk of many undesired developmental outcomes. Peer relationships of children with …
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Supporting a school team in planning and implementing AAC for a child with intellectual disability
… a child who cannot use speech and also has a language disorder to learn augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) is often challenging for families and school teams. I provided one school-family team with supports package that consisted of a structured team meeting and one-on-one …
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Relationship between language impairment and sensory processing disorder
… have found that children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and other neurological disabilities have abnormal sensory responsiveness patterns (Watson et al., 2011). Children with hypo-sensitive sensory profiles were found to have more severe language and attentional problems than those …
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An improved audiometer for specific language impaired children
… sound is called a hearing impairment. Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is a very common type of impairment found in many children. Generally, children with SLI are often diagnosed with developmental language disorder and as they grew older they may find difficulty in learning new words and …
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Language Profiles and Narrative Skills in Subclinical Language Children: Implications for Early Screening
Children with language disorders are at risk for poor reading outcomes. However, less is known about "subclinical" children who, despite having standardized test scores within the typically developing range (e.g., scores above an 85), exhibit less developed language skills than their peers. This …
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The Aphasia Friendly Business Campaign
Aphasia is a language disorder that affects a person’s ability to speak, read, write, or understand. The disorder is multi-faceted and symptoms vary greatly among individuals, but all forms create pervasive communication barriers that make participation in society difficult. There are well over …
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Cerebral configurations among the parents and siblings of language-disordered boys.
Four families that include a specifically language-impaired (SLI) boy served as subjects of this study. The background and behavioral characteristics of these subjects indicated that a majority of the parents and siblings of the language-disordered boys also experienced difficulty with speech, …
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A Longitudinal Analysis of Spanish Morphosyntactic Performance Based on Spanish-English Bilingual Exposure and Usage
This study examines the interaction between language experience and Spanish morphosyntactic development using longitudinal data of Spanish-English bilingual children with typical language development (TD) and developmental language disorder (DLD). Specifically, this study explores how language …
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Analysis of Electrophysiological Markers and Correlated Components of Neural Responses to Discourse Coherence
<p>Constructing meaning from spoken language is invaluable for learning, social interaction, and communication. In clinical populations with developmental disorders of speech comprehension, the severity of disruption can persist and vary from limiting occupational opportunities to lower performance …
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The effects of disclosure on university students' perceptions of a person with aphasia.
Aphasia is a neurogenic language disorder usually caused by a stroke. The resulting language impairments typically include word-retrieval deficits, which lead to a decreased ability to communicate functionally. This increases the frustration of the person with aphasia (PWA), leading to social …
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Computational Framework Enabling an EEG-based BCI for Neurofeedback in Language Disorders: The case of dyslexia
… the cognitive symptoms of developmental language disorders. One major limitation to the advancement of this field has been the absence of a framework combining the Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) literature with the developmental neurobiology of speech and language. This thesis establishes …
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A multidisciplinary investigation into the function of NFXL1
Human speech and language, unique to our species, are essential for communication, cognitive development, and societal function. Disorders affecting these abilities are associated with learning disabilities, reduced academic achievement, and social challenges. Despite their significance, the …
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Standardization of Oral Cloze as a Language Assessment Device for Bilingual Hispanic Children
… the feasibility of oral cloze procedures as a language screening for bilingual Hispanic students. If such a procedure were normed, and proven to be both reliable and valid, the resultant assessment device would have potential screening tool as a for determining the presence of a language …
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Environmental influences on communication development: Implications for children with neurodevelopmental communication impairments
… neuroscience and communication sciences and disorders, this dissertation provides a compilation of studies aimed at examining contextual influences on children's communication development and the implications of this work for children with neurodevelopmental communication impairments. As …
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Language Disabilities of Delinquent Adolescents
… Of that group, 39 to 63 percent show a language disorder syndrome which may negatively affect school learning over a broad range of the curriculum area (Semel and Wiig, 1980). The prevalence of learning disabilities in the juvenile delinquent population is significantly higher. It ranges …
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