The phases of receptive language processing and speech production influenced by hypothesized deficits in children with specific language impairment are illustrated schematically in Figures 1 and 2.

In the first molecular genetic study of families with a history of both language impairment and autism, scientists may have uncovered a shared origin for the two conditions, an important step toward ...

For the first time, a new study has looked into how language impairments affect a child's ability to understand and retell a script-based story. For this study, the examiner read a script-based story ...

The exchange of words, speaking and listening in conversation, may seem unremarkable for most people, but communicating with others is a challenge for people who have aphasia, an impairment of ...

An estimated one in 100,000 people have the neurodegenerative disease known as primary progressive aphasia. But their underlying causes are not the same, according to new research. Primary progressive ...

Genes speak to each other in their own molecular dialect. By tracking one such conversation, scientists have identified a genetic relationship that may contribute to the common childhood language ...

A rigorous analysis of numerous studies concludes that a part of the brain traditionally associated with movement is abnormal in children with developmental language impairments, according to ...

An extensive autopsy study identifies diseases that cause progressive impairments of language, such as difficulty with grammar or word comprehension. A new study from Northwestern University (IL, USA) ...