Between 6 and 12 months of age there are dramatic changes in infants' processing of language. The neurostructural underpinnings of these changes are virtually unknown. The objectives of this study wer...
This commentary describes a multi-national project which addresses gaps in the design and delivery of health and education services in Arabic-speaking countries in relation to early language developme...
The importance of inter-professional partnership and the inclusion of families in planning support for oral language development is highlighted. Arabic versions of the Communicative Development Invent...
This work contributes to the promotion of robust language development for all Arabic-speaking children. This commentary focusses on sustainable development goal (SDG) 3, SDG 4, SDG 10 and SDG 17....
With development knowledge becomes organized according to semantic links, including early-developing associative (e.g., juicy-apple) and gradually developing taxonomic links (e.g., apple-pear). Word c...
In most humans, the superior temporal sulcus (STS) shows a rightward depth asymmetry. This asymmetry can not only be observed in adults, but is already recognizable in the fetal brain. As the STS lies...
Most deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children are born to hearing parents and steered toward spoken rather than signed language, introducing a delay in language access. This study investigated the effe...
Pathogenic KAT6A variants cause syndromic neurodevelopmental disability. "Speech delay" is reported, yet none have examined specific speech and language features of KAT6A syndrome. Here we phenotype t...
A growing body of literature suggests strong associations between environmental factors and young children's early language and literacy development. In the United States, large socio-economic differe...
DyLNet is a large-scale longitudinal social experiment designed to observe the relations between child socialisation and oral language learning at preschool. During three years, a complete preschool i...
Through daily exposure to the surrounding input structured in conversations, children's language gradually develops into rich linguistic constructions that contain multiple cross-modal elements subtly...
The Language Development Survey (LDS) and the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (MB-CDI) are two parental report forms that have been productive in providing data on early child la...
To review the evidence for the LDS and the MB-CDI utility as screening instruments....
A literature search in PubMed and PsychInfo identified 16 articles based on LDS or MB-CDI that reported statistics pertinent to early screening for language difficulties....
It was found that most reviewed studies were explorative in nature and tried out different versions of the screening test, including different cut-off values, multiple reference tests, small sample si...
There is insufficient evidence that the LDS or any version of the MB-CDI is a valid tool for screening for language difficulties. Of course, this is not to say that sufficient evidence will not be ach...
What is already known on this subject The LDS and the MB-CDI are two often-used instruments assessing various aspects of early child language by parental reports. Both instruments have also been used ...
