Background: Oral language skills in the preschool and early school years are critical to
educational success and provide the foundations for the later development of reading …

Speech therapy intervention with pre-school children is on the increase, partly due to
clinicians' greater knowledge and understanding of early child development, particularly …

Practitioners involved in the development of educational programs and clinical services for
child learners of English as a second language (ESL) are challenged when they make …

While solving tasks that test their intelligence, children suffering from developmental
language disorders (DLD) usually receive lower scores than their typically developing (TD) …

The aim of this study was to assess the criterion validity of a new screening instrument, the
Early Language Scale (ELS), for the identification of young children at risk for developmental …

Abstract Purpose of Review To review studies evaluating interventions for developing the
prelinguistic communication skills of young children with developmental disorders and …

Many children with developmental language disorder (DLD) have a vocabulary deficit. One
of the most effective interventions for increasing children's lexicon size is the semantic and …

Introduction One of the bilingual advantages often reported in the literature on typically-
developing children involves advantages in foreign language learning at school. However, it …

Of all the developmental difficulties that may be present in childhood, language impairment
is probably the most common. It is of vast importance to prevent cumulative negative …