BACKGROUND Younger siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are themselves at increased risk for ASD and other developmental concerns. It is unclear if infants who display developmental concerns, but are unaffected by ASD, share similar or dissimilar behavioral and brain phenotypes to infants with ASD. Most individuals with ASD exhibit heterogeneous difficulties with language, a...

Nowadays, English language plays an important role in the job of engineers and it is necessary to become familiar with engineers’ objectives, attitudes, and expectations in order to have an appropriate course design. The purpose of this study was to explore the needs analysis of English learning of engineers in Esfahan Steel Company (ESCO). This study aimed at investigating the required level o...

Objectives: One of the factors predicting language impairments is an early limited lexicon in children. An early limited lexicon can also lead to limited performances in other language areas. This study was aimed to examine receptive and expressive vocabulary in 8-16 month-old children with cleft lip and palate as a predictor of development in other language areas. Materials: The MacArthur-Bat...

The Expressive and the Receptive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test (EOWPVT & ROWPVT). (A combine pilot study in Greek Junior High School aged children & data for expressive and receptive language for this population) Tafiadis Dionysios, Anastasios Mokas, Konstantinos Chorevas, Euaggelia Bogindrouka, Kaliopi Kentioglou, Emmanouil Pantazis, Maria Tafiadi From 1 International Congress on Neurobiolo...

Expressive and receptive speech prosody in a group of children with Williams syndrome and Down’s syndrome are compared with each other and also with typically developing children using a computerized test battery. It is found that the WS children outperform the DS children on all expressive aspects of prosody, despite having comparable receptive language and non-verbal skills. This suggests tha...

The Expressive and the Receptive One Word Picture Vocabulary Test (EOWPVT & ROWPVT). (A combine pilot study in High School aged children & data for expressive and receptive language for this population) Dionisios Tafiadis, Euaggelia Bogindrouka, Kaliopi Kentioglou, Emmanouil Pantazis, Maria Zizika, Maria Tafiadi, Aggelos Papadopoulos, Pagona(Nonika) Koutsogianni From 1 International Congress on...

Background: The language profiles of children with language impairment (LI) and bilingual children can show partial, and possibly temporary, overlap. The current study examined the persistence of this overlap over time. Furthermore, we aimed to better understand why the language profiles of these two groups show resemblance, testing the hypothesis that the language difficulties of children with...

Data from a nationally representative sample from Turkey (N = 1,017) were used to investigate the environmental factors that support the receptive vocabulary of 3-year-old children who differ in their developmental risk due to family low economic status and elevated maternal depressive symptoms. Children's vocabulary knowledge was strongly associated with language stimulation and learning mater...

Most studies on bilingual language development focus on children's second language (L2). Here, we investigated first language (L1) development of Polish-English early migrant bilinguals in four domains: vocabulary, grammar, phonological processing, and discourse. We first compared Polish language skills between bilinguals and their Polish non-migrant monolingual peers, and then investigated the...

Introduction Childhood is a critical period for language development and maturation of the central auditory system. Unilateral hearing loss (UHL) is considered a minimal impairment, and little is discussed regarding its impact on the development of language, communication, and school performance. Objectives A bibliographical survey of scientific articles published from 2001 to 2011 was performe...