OBJECTIVES: Little is known on the psychosocial adult outcomes of children's early
language skills or intervening circumstances. The aim of this study was to assess the …

Language is central to social life; speech and language development is a cornerstone for
successful outcomes later in life. Speech and language competency does not progress …

Aims Language development was followed from infancy to primary school age in order to
examine the predictive significance for later language and scholastic outcome. Methods …

Language and communicative competence provide critical tools for learning, engaging in
social relationships, and behaviour and emotion regulation from infancy onward. This report …

OBJECTIVE: To examine at 7 years the language abilities of children, the salience of early
life factors and language scores as predictors of language outcome, and co-occurring …

Objective Language disorders are associated with emotional and behavioral problems in
childhood and adolescence. Although clinical studies with small samples suggest that …

Background An association between children's early language development and their
emotional and behavioural functioning is reported in the literature. The nature of the …

This investigation compared a group of expressive language‐delayed children with
language‐normal children of the same age (M= 25.7 months; SD= 0.8 months) on various …

Background: The long‐term academic consequences of childhood language impairment are
both theoretically and clinically important. An unbiased appraisal of these outcomes …

Abstract Language disorder (LD) and social-emotional and behavioural (SEB) difficulties are
common childhood problems that often co-occur. While there is clear evidence of these …