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Peer reviewedGallagher, Tanya M.; Watkin, Kenneth L. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1998
Reviews research on frequently occurring perinatal risk factors, especially the relationship between small-for-gestational age infants and later language and language-related skills. It finds that being too young, too small, or both represent risk factors for language development that increase in that order and are sufficient to warrant language…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Birth Weight, Developmental Delays, Language Impairments
