Bilingual children represent a diverse population whose language development can be complicated by both typical dual language acquisition and by language impairments that may affect one or both ...

Nancy Wallace had no idea the impact that placing a couple of crayons and a blank sheet of paper in front of her young son Nahoma would have on the rest of his life. Diagnosed from birth with mild ...

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) ...

East Hanover, NJ. April 21, 2021. Kessler Foundation researchers showed that people with multiple sclerosis (MS) experience subtle language impairments that standard neuropsychological tests may ...

This week we are going to discuss something quite off of the regular track as we are delving into the realm of neurologic impairments. Today we are going to discuss something that occurs as a result ...

Around 45% of children in Austrian day nurseries have a first language other than German. Those who our experiencing difficulty in learning the second language are often diagnosed as having a ...

A study from the University of Kansas recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Brain Sciences identifies a new gene target related to specific language impairment (SLI). The discovery of BUD13 ...

Scientists have shown that defects in the protein CAPRIN1 are the cause of various neurological impairments. These new insights were made possible by exome analyses, in which scientists observe which ...

It can be hard not to notice that a suspiciously large number of children, of seemingly normal human linguistic capacity, are officially designated as language impaired. In 2019, two researchers set ...

A scientist from RUDN University analysed the effect of visual impairment on a person's perception of unfamiliar sounds when learning a foreign language. The experiment showed that lack of access to ...