Children vary in their ability to use language in social contexts and this has important
consequences for wellbeing. We review studies that test whether individual differences in …

Background The relationship between oral language and the writing process at early
acquisition stages and the ways the former can enhance or limit the latter has not been …

There is now an extensive empirical literature on the nature and extent of pragmatic
disorders in a range of clinical populations. This chapter attempts to organize the findings of …

Pragmatic language ability refers to the ability to use language in a social context. It has
been found to be correlated with success in general education for deaf and hard of hearing …

Oral narrative production develops dramatically from 3 to 5 years of age, and is a key factor
in a child's ability to communicate about the world. Concomitant with this are developments …

Purpose The purpose of this study was to understand how joint attention and sensory-
regulatory features are related in early childhood and predict language and social …

Introducción La heterogeneidad existente entre los niños diagnosticados con trastorno
específico del lenguaje (TEL) enfatiza la necesidad de su estudio y caracterización a partir …

Executive functions (EFs) and narrative competence (NC) are two important predictors of
many outcomes in human development. To date, however, it is unclear whether these skills …

Aims and objectives: The study investigated narrative microstructure skills of Arabic-
speaking immigrant children in Canada (N= 75; age range 7–12 years) with specific focus …

Purpose Narrative skill represents a higher-level linguistic skill that shows incremental
development in the preschool years. During these years, there are considerable individual …