language delay
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflanguageanddelay
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language
noun
uk/ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/us/ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/
a system of communication consisting of sounds, words, ...
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delay
noun[C or U]
uk/dɪˈleɪ/us/dɪˈleɪ/
the situation in which you have to wait longer than expected for something to happen, or the time that you have ...
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(Definition oflanguageanddelayfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Predicting outcomes of early expressivelanguagedelay: ethical implications.
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This research assessed the use of psychological state terms at age 3 in children with a history of expressivelanguagedelay.
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Given such ' normal ' milestones, it is not clear why a general perception oflanguagedelayin young bilinguals has prevailed (recall the ' bilingual paradox ').
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The measurement of receptive vocabulary is crucial to elucidating the relation between comprehension and production and to identifying children at risk forlanguagedelay.
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Indeed, children withlanguagedelaymay spend a longer developmental time span prior to their ability to coordinate attention with a communication partner.
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This could be an important area for further research, both in normally developing children and in those who are showing signs oflanguagedelay.
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Twins as a natural experiment to study the causes oflanguagedelay.
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Across these outcomes, decreased gestational age appeared, in general, to be associated with increased risks of laterlanguagedelay.
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Thelanguagedelayis followed by a developmental spur t and a continuous language growth.
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Furthermore, this developmentallanguagedelayoccurred in the absence of hearing impairment and oral motor or structural deficits such as cleft palate.
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Languagedelayin children associated with middle ear disease and mild, fluctuating hearing impairment.
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Twins as a natural experiment to study the causes of mildlanguagedelay.
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Some children had a previous diagnosis of language impairment or severelanguagedelay, and some of them had received intervention.
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However, such a delay in psychological state terms has not been examined in children withlanguagedelay.
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Furthermore, no studies have examined all three aspects of narrative skills in the narratives of children with histories oflanguagedelay.
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One motivation for the development of this procedure is to facilitate clinical assessment of risk forlanguagedelay.
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This may reflect an earlylanguagedelaythat is simply normal variation, or one that may be manifested as language impairment at a later age.
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Some parents had symptoms that qualified them for a diagnosis on the autism spectrum; others had milder symptoms, such aslanguagedelay.
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