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Peer reviewedLahey, Margaret; Edwards, Jan – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1995
Analysis of characteristics of 53 children with specific language impairment (SLI), ages 4 to 9, suggested that family history is related to pattern of language performance. Children with deficits in only expressive language had a higher proportion of affected family members than did children with both expressive and receptive language deficits.…
Descriptors: Etiology, Expressive Language, Family Environment, Family Influence
Abbeduto, Leonard; Murphy, Melissa M.; Cawthon, Stephanie W.; Richmond, Erica K.; Weissman, Michelle D.; Karadottir, Selma; O'Brien, Anne – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2003
This study compared the receptive language of adolescents and young adults with either Down syndrome (n=25), fragile X syndrome (n=19), or mental age matched typically developing children (n=24). Individuals with the syndromes differed in relative achievements across the domains of receptive vocabulary, receptive syntax, nonverbal cognition, and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Congenital Impairments, Down Syndrome, Genetics
