Although a growing literature points to substantial variation in speech/language abilities
related to individual differences in musical abilities, mainstream models of communication …

Developmental speech and language disorders cover a wide range of childhood conditions
with overlapping but heterogeneous phenotypes and underlying etiologies. This …

The home literacy environment is a well-established predictor of children's language and
literacy development. We investigated whether formal, informal, and indirect measures of the …

Purpose Parents, professionals, and policy makers need information on the long-term
prognosis for children with communication disorders. Our primary purpose in this report was …

Using online measures of familiar word recognition in the looking‐while‐listening
procedure, this prospective longitudinal study revealed robust links between processing …

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether children with unilateral hearing loss (UHL) demonstrate
worse language skills than their siblings with normal hearing, and whether children with …

Dominance of the left hemisphere for many aspects of speech production and perception is
one of the best known examples of functional hemispheric asymmetries in the human brain …

Specific language impairment (SLI) is a common developmental disorder characterized by
difficulties in language acquisition despite otherwise normal development and in the …

Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a neurodevelopmental condition, occurring in
about 3% to 7% of preschoolers, that can impair communication and negatively impact …

Reading ability is a complex task requiring the integration of multiple cognitive and
perceptual systems supporting language, visual and orthographic processes, working …