Developmental speech and language disorders cover a wide range of childhood conditions
with overlapping but heterogeneous phenotypes and underlying etiologies. This …

It has been suggested that language impairment in autism is behaviorally, neurobiologically,
and etiologically related to specific language impairment (SLI). In this article, the authors …

The landmark reference in the field, completely updated: a comprehensive treatment of a
disorder that is more prevalent than autism. Children with specific language impairment …

The human capacity to acquire complex language seems to be without parallel in the natural
world. The origins of this remarkable trait have long resisted adequate explanation, but …

Abstract Language impairment is a hallmark of autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The origin
of the deficit is poorly understood although deficiencies in auditory processing have been …

Despite the well established role of the frontal and posterior perisylvian cortices in many
facets of human-cognitive specializations, including language, little is known about the …

Stuttering is a speech disorder long recognized to have a genetic component. Recent
linkage studies mapped a susceptibility locus for stuttering to chromosome 12 in 46 highly …

'The author of this excellent new book states in the preface that she intended to" provide an
account of autism that people with little or no specialist knowledge will find comprehensible …

We analyzed genetic linkage and association of measures of language, speech and reading
phenotypes to candidate regions in a single set of families ascertained for SLI. Sib-pair and …

It has been known for some years that specific language impairment (SLI), an unexpected
failure to acquire age-appropriate language skills, is highly heritable. However, molecular …