Purpose A wealth of studies has assessed the diagnostic value of the nonword repetition
task (NWRT) for the detection of developmental language disorder (DLD) in the clinical …

Basic principles, methods and procedures for assessment and intervention of child
language disorders. Language Measurement. Qualitative and quantitative approaches to …

Early language delay (ELD) is a warning sign that may presage the presence of a later
language impairment (LI). In order to allow more targeted identification and earlier …

Purpose Research on the diagnostic accuracy of different language measures has focused
primarily on English. This study examined the sensitivity and specificity of a range of …

Purpose The evidence of a deficit in working memory in specific language impairment (SLI)
is of sufficient magnitude to suggest a primary role in developmental language disorder …

Upon fast mapping, children rarely retain new words even over intervals as short as 5 min. In
this study, we asked whether the memory process of encoding or consolidation is the …

Purpose To document the lexical characteristics of neighborhood density (ND) and word
frequency (WF) in the lexicons of a large sample of English-speaking toddlers. Method …

We report an investigation of the validity of teachers' ratings of children's progress in
'phonics' as a screener for dyslexia. Seventy‐three 6‐year‐olds from a whole school …

Abstract Background Identifying 3–4‐year‐olds who are most at risk of persisting language
difficulties, and possibly specific language impairment (SLI), is difficult due to the natural …

This study investigates macrostructure skill transfer in successive bilingual children
speaking Slovak and English, a new language combination for narrative research. We …