The aim of this research note is to encourage child language researchers and clinicians to give careful consideration to the use of domain-specific tests as a proxy for language; particularly in the context of large-scale studies and for the identification of language disorder in clinical practice. ...

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Fiona Pete Stanley Azzopardi FJ PA FAA FASSA MSc MD FFPHM FAFPHM FRACP FRANZCOG HonDSc HonDUniv HonFRACGP HonMD HonFRCPCH HonLLB (honoris causa) PhD, FRACP, MEpi, MBBS, GDipBiostats, BMedSci Patron Head, Adolescent Health and Wellbeing 08 6319 1176 ...

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It has been suggested that quantitative measures of differential hand skill or reaching preference may provide more valid measures than traditional... ...

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• 2013
• May 2013

Receptive vocabulary development is a component of the human language system that emerges in the first year of life and is characterised by onward expansion... ...

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• 2014
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This study investigated the etiology of late language emergence (LLE) in 24-month-old twins, considering possible twinning, zygosity, gender, and... ...

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• 2014
• June 2014

The current study sought to determine whether gestational hypertension and pre-eclampsia are associated with neurocognitive outcomes in middle childhood. ...

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• 2012
• March 2012

Differentiating between childhood communication disorders: Implications for language and psychosocial outcomes ...

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• 2009
• January 2009

Rates of diagnosis of autism have risen since 1980, raising the question of whether some children who previously had other diagnoses are now being diagnosed... ...

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• 2008
• May 2008

Investigating the impact of early childhood ventilation tube insertion (VTI) on long-term language outcomes.  ...

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• 2023
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The idea of the '30 million word gap' suggests families from more socioeconomically advantaged backgrounds engage in more verbal interactions with their child than disadvantaged families. Initial findings from the Language in Little Ones (LiLO) study up to 12 months showed no word gap between maternal education groups. ...

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• 2021
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Unmet language and literacy needs are common among young people who are involved with youth justice systems. However, there is limited research regarding the functional text-level language skills of this population with regard to narrative macrostructure (story grammar) and microstructure (semantics and syntax) elements. In this study, we examined macrostructure and microstructure elements in the oral and written narrative texts of 24 adolescent students of a youth detention centre. The students, who were aged 14- to 17- years, were all speakers of Standard Australian English, and 11 (46%) students met criteria for language disorder (LD). ...

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While autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and specific language impairment (SLI) have traditionally been conceptualized as distinct disorders, recent findings... ...

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• 2015
• July 2015