New screening tools in child health care are effective in identifying early language and communication difficulties in children. This is shown by two studies based on more than 6,000 children. New ...

A 5-year-old wearing headphones is instructed by a prerecorded voice to repeat what they hear word for word. Such a test, called sentence recall, measures auditory processing, memory and language ...

Developmental language disorders encompass a spectrum of neurodevelopmental conditions marked by persistent difficulties in acquiring and using spoken or written language, despite normal hearing and ...

May is the perfect time to bring awareness to speech and language disorders as they rank among the most common affecting ...

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association recognizes May as Better Speech and Hearing Month. Speech and language disorders affect one’s ability to talk, understand, read and write. Such ...

Source: spass/bigstockphoto What happens when 40 percent of a generation cannot function effectively at school? Signs are emerging that this may happen with the children who were 0 to 6 years old ...

Linguistic symptoms and an onset early in life: Disorders to which this applies are frequently associated with left-handedness resp. mixed-handedness. The fact that left-handedness resp.

In the process of developing language, the melody patterns that emerge in infants' vocalizations are a very important first step. A new study has shown that the complexity of these patterns rapidly ...

The focus of my practice is on work with children, adolescents, and familes. I have extensive experience with children and teenagers with a broad variety of challenges including anxiety and depression ...