Editorial: Multilingualism and neurodevelopmental disorders

Editorial: Non-Coding RNAs in Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Editorial: The Grammar of Multilingualism

Generative linguistics is primarily concerned with providing formal models of the linguistic competence of human beings. The goal is to adequately characterize and explain the structures of the grammar that each individual has constructed in his/her mind. This involves providing a formal description of the possible structures, which at the same time also rules out structures that do not occur. ...

Multilingualism and acquired neurogenic speech disorders

Acquired neurogenic communication disorders can affect language, speech, or both. Although neurogenic speech disorders have been researched for a considerable time, much of this work has been restricted to a few languages (mainly English, with German, French, Japanese and Chinese also represented). Further, the work has concentrated on monolingual speakers. In this account, I aim to outline the...

Neurodevelopmental Disorders

The effective identification of neurodevelopmental disorders is essential for early diagnosis and provision of intervention services. For many of these conditions, one of the primary domains of abnormality is language development. This review addresses what is known about the earliest indicators of language impairment across a range of neurodevelopmental disorders; consideration is given to bot...

Sleep and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Sleep disorders in children are among the most common parental complaints to health care professionals and frequently occur in children with neurological and developmental disorders. Thus, I am grateful to the editors of Neuropediatrics for the opportunity to assemble in one place several papers that outline the contemporary knowledge about sleep disorders in patients with neurodevelopmental di...