Language Development in Children: Description to Detect and Prevent Language Difficulties

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: Psychology; acoustics; adolescent; alternating treatments; assessment; atypical language acquisition; autism; bilingual; bilingualism; birth order; birth weight; Catalan; children; Children's Communication Checklist (CCC-2); clitics; cognitive development; comprehension; consonant; deaf; derivational errors; developmental disorders; developmental language disorder; developmental language disorder (DLD); Developmental Language Disorder (DLD); diagnostic markers of DLD/SLI; dysarthria; early detection; early language assessment; early language development; education; engagement; ERP; European Portuguese; executive functioning; executive functions; eye-tracker; formal measures; gaze fixation; gender agreement; gestures; GLUT 1 transporter deficiency syndrome (GLUT1DS); grammatical errors; imitation; impairment; information recall; input; landmark analysis; language; language acquisition; language delay; language deprivation; language development; language errors; language impairment; language processing; learning disabilities; lexical errors; lexical spurt; likelihood ratio; literacy skills; longitudinal; longitudinal follow-up; MacArthur-Bates CDI; Mandarin Chinese; media; n/a; narrative development; narrative discourse comprehension; non-referential gestures; nonword repetition; oral motor; oral narrative discourse performance; parental education; parents' reports; phonological awareness; pragmatics; pragmatics communicative profile; predictive factors; prematurely born children; preschool; preschool age; preteens; preterm children; processing speed; prosody; pseudowords; pupillometry; reading; receptive vocabulary; recitation; regional cohort study; rhyme; rhythm; screening; sentence imitation task; sentence repetition task; sex; sign language; single case study; social cognition; Spanish; specific language impairment; specific language impairment (SLI); speech; twin births; type of delivery; very low birth weight; very preterm; video games; writing
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (358 p.)
• ISBN: 9783036568409; 9783036568416; books978-3-0365-6840-9
• Access: Open Access

"Language Development in Children: Description to Detect and Prevent Language Difficulties" is focused on the description of language development and the variables affecting the early detection and prevention of language difficulties. Although language difficulties are very common (14%), these difficulties are misdiagnosed due to the lack of visibility and knowledge from professionals of their long-term consequences in education and mental health. To prevent the misdiagnosed identification and assessment of language difficulties, more typical and atypical language studies are needed. In this sense, a good description of language acquisition could help to detect and prevent language difficulties. Nevertheless, most of the research on child language development has been conducted in English and several cross-linguistic studies have shown that some results about language development in English may not be transferred to other languages. Despite the increase in the number of studies, there is still little research about typical and atypical language acquisition in other languages and in bilingual populations. Therefore, this work aims to fill the current void in these studies, give them visibility, and show the latest research about language acquisition in children. In this sense, this work addresses works with several perspectives of child language from a psycholinguistic, psychological, linguistic, and/or educational point of view, including theoretical and empirical studies on typical and atypical child language acquisition and their association with other variables (either social or genetic) that could affect them.