ABSTRACT This study compared the receptive and expressive language profiles of verbally expressive children and adolescents with Down Syndrome (DS) and those with Fragile X syndrome (FXS) and examined the extent to which these profiles reliably differentiate the diagnostic groups. A total of twenty-four verbal participants with DS (mean age: 12 years), twenty-two verbal participants with FXS (m...

Oral reading and expressive language skills were examined in 2 cohorts of children aged 5–15 years, who had mild, moderate, or severe traumatic brain injury. Children recruited prospectively from time of injury were assessed on 5 occasions over 2 years in a longitudinal study of change in reading skills, using the Gray Oral Reading Test-3rd Edition, and in expressive language, using the Formula...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have suggested that language is affected in infants of diabetic mothers, yet there have been no systematic investigations to address this question. OBJECTIVE Our goal was to compare infants of diabetic mothers and controls on language outcomes from ages 18 months to 7 years. METHODS This was a case-control longitudinal design with 2 birth cohorts: 1835 singletons...

Frequent use of expressive suppression to regulate one’s emotions can impair long-term health and well-being for both children and adults. Therefore, there are important pragmatic benefits to identifying contexts in which individuals learn to avoid expressive suppression. We hypothesized that individuals involved in acting classes -a context in which expression of emotion is highly valued -may ...

The ability of the right hemisphere to sustain the acquisition or the recovery of language after extensive damage to the left hemisphere has been essentially related to the age at the time of injury. Better language abilities are acquired when the insult occurs in early childhood (perinatal insults) compared with later occurrence. However, while previous studies have described the neuropsycholo...