Highlights•A critical period for first language is different from that of a second
language.•Different critical periods with different time frames for different language …

To the best of our knowledge, the first person to suggest that there are different types of
developmental dyslexia was the educational psychologist Helmer Myklebust. In Myklebust …

Do individuals with autism have a developmental syntactic impairment, DLI (formerly known
as SLI)? In this study we directly compared the performance of 18 individuals with Autism …

We discuss a robust yet at first sight surprising fact: individuals who have problems
understanding sentences with object A-bar movement cannot use overt Case marking of the …

Background The aim of this study was to analyze how the reading process of deaf Spanish
elementary school students is affected both by those components that explain reading …

We propose a detailed cognitive model of multi-digit number reading. The model postulates
separate processes for visual analysis of the digit string and for oral production of the verbal …

Children with hearing impairment (HI) show disorders in syntax and morphology. The
question is whether and how these disorders are connected to problems in the auditory …

Objectives There is a large variation in the function of cochlear implanted children in
language assessments. However, they usually have poorer performance in language …

The hypothesis that impoverished language experience affects complex sentence structure
development around the end of early childhood was tested using a fully randomized …

Purpose: This study investigated long-term predictors of reading development (phonological
decoding, word recognition, and reading comprehension) in 24 children with cochlear …