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Newbury, Dianne F.; Gibson, Jenny L.; Conti-Ramsden, Gina; Pickles, Andrew; Durkin, Kevin; Toseeb, Umar – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Children with poor language tend to have worse psychosocial outcomes compared to their typically developing peers. The most common explanations for such adversities focus on developmental psychological processes whereby poor language triggers psychosocial difficulties. Here, we investigate the possibility of shared biological effects by…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Language Variation, Psychological Patterns, Social Development
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Everitt, Andrea; Hannaford, Philip; Conti-Ramsden, Gina – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2013
Background: Identifying 3-4-year-olds who are most at risk of persisting language difficulties, and possibly specific language impairment (SLI), is difficult due to the natural variation of language in young children. In older children, markers for SLI have been identified that differentiate between children with and without SLI. It is not known…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Developmental Delays, Expressive Language, Language Impairments
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Wadman, Ruth; Durkin, Kevin; Conti-Ramsden, Gina – Journal of Adolescence, 2011
Social interactions can be a source of social stress for adolescents. Little is known about how adolescents with developmental difficulties, such as specific language impairment (SLI), feel when interacting socially. Participants included 28 adolescents with SLI and 28 adolescents with typical language abilities (TL). Self-report measures of…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Adolescents, Expressive Language, Language Aptitude