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findings from the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research that show relatively common stressful events during pregnancy do not have a long term impact
Child health expert Fiona Stanley says effective action to break the cycle of disadvantage for Aboriginal children must begin well before they start school.
New research findings from the world's largest study predicting children's late language emergence has revealed that parents are not to blame for late talking
The majority of children acquire language effortlessly but approximately 10% of all children find it difficult especially in the early or preschool years with consequences for many aspects of their subsequent development and experience: literacy, social skills, educational qualifications, mental health and employment.
This study sought to determine the prevalence of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) in Australian school-aged children and associated potential risk factors for DLD at 10 years.
Evidence that some children also develop autistic symptomatology over time has raised suggestions that developmental language disorder...
Differentiating between childhood communication disorders: Implications for language and psychosocial outcomes
A link between developmental language disorders and atypical cerebral lateralization has been postulated since the 1920s, but evidence has been indirect and...
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...
The aim of this study was to investigate the language outcomes of 7-year-old children with and without a history of late language emergence at 24 months.