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Hough, Susan D.; Kaczmarek, Louise – Journal of Early Intervention, 2011
In recent years, many children from Eastern European orphanages have been adopted by families in the United States. When children begin life with their new families, they experience an abrupt language shift in which the learning of their native language halts as the learning of the new language commences. Without the support of their native…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Semantics, Syntax, Oral Language
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Craig, Holly K.; And Others – Journal of Early Intervention, 1992
Of 30 children with low birth weight, only 4 demonstrated clinically significant language problems at age 3. Language problems were characterized by circumscribed expressive syntax difficulties but were not related systematically to birth weight, gestational age, length of neonatal hospitalization, severity of respiratory illness, socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Etiology, Expressive Language, Language Handicaps