Importance Speech/language, scholastic, and motor disorders are common in children. It is unknown whether exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) during pregnancy influences susceptibility to these disorders. Objective To examine whether SSRI exposure during pregnancy is associated with speech/language, scholastic, and motor disorders in offspring up to early adolescence. ...

PURPOSE The primary aim of this study was to examine differences in speech/language and written language skills between children with suspected childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) and children with other speech-sound disorders at school age. METHOD Ten children (7 males and 3 females) who were clinically diagnosed with CAS (CAS group) were followed from the preschool years (ages 4-6) to school ...

This study aimed at investigating the relationship between language disorders of school child and psychological academic compatibility.; In order to achieve this aim, researchers followed descriptive method in addition some educational methods including; Zeineb Cheir’s compatibility scale, results pupils who suffer from disorders, depending on their term averages. Thus; tools were applied a pop...

Psychomotor development is a maturational process that in the early years of life enables the child to acquire postural, motor, cognitive, communicative and relational skills and abilities. It is a continuous progress, essentially dependent on the maturation of the central nervous system (CNS), with variable timing and conditions for each child, but where is possible to identify the “stages” th...

Dyslexia is commonly described as a disorder manifested by difficulties in learning to read and spell, despite adequate intelligence and conventional instruction. It is often diagnosed on the basis of a discrepancy between measures of reading ability and other cognitive skills, and is said to occur in 4–7% of children [1]. Explanations for dyslexia fall into three main categories. Perhaps the m...

Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is a disorder characterised by slow, abnormal language development. Most children with this disorder do not present any other cognitive or neurological deficits. There are many different pathological developmental profiles and switches from one profile to another often occur. An alternative would be to consider SLI as a generic name covering three developmenta...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the study was to explore the univariate and multivariate differences in behavioural problems among children with disorders in expressive or mixed receptive-expressive language development and children with unimpaired language development. METHOD Ninety-four children with language development disorders (LDD) between the ages of 4 and 6 years and 94 children (matched ...

PURPOSE: The present study examined associations of 5 endophenotypes (i.e., measurable skills that are closely associated with speech sound disorders and are useful in detecting genetic influences on speech sound production), oral motor skills, phonological memory, phonological awareness, vocabulary, and speeded naming, with 3 clinical criteria for classifying speech sound disorders: severity o...

The prior quote is from a recent issue of Science with a special section on the topic of developmental timing. The temporal events that guide development are key parts of the puzzle of contemporary molecular genetics. Genes are known to turn on at certain times in development; microRNAs show temporaland tissuespecific patterns of gene expression (cf. Carrington & Ambros, 2003); and genes activa...