Background: High levels of early language difficulties raise practical issues about the
efficient and effective means of meeting children's needs. Persistent language difficulties …

This study investigated the economic efficiency of alternative types of intervention with
language-impaired preschool children. Forty children were randomly assigned to one of four …

Abstract Purpose: To examine (1) the patterns of service use and costs associated with
language impairment in a community cohort of children from ages 4–9 years and (2) the …

Background: Although economic evaluation has been widely recognized as a key feature of
both health services and educational research, for many years there has been a paucity of …

Purpose. This study aimed to quantify the non-hospital healthcare costs associated with
language difficulties within two nationally representative samples of children. Method. Data …

Background: There are few economic evaluations of speech and language interventions.
Such work requires underpinning by an accurate estimate of the costs of the intervention …

Abstract Background Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) have a
significant deficit in spoken language ability which affects their communication skills …

Although most children learn language relatively quickly, as many as 10 per cent of them are
slow to start speaking and are said to have developmental language disorder (DLD) …

Background: The study is the first within trial cost analysis of direct versus indirect and
individual versus group modes of speech‐and‐language therapy for children with primary …

A large cohort of 242 children who had been attending infants language units at 7 years of
age was followed up when the children were in their final year of primary school. Two …