language disorder

collocation in English

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language
noun
uk
/ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/us
/ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/
a system of communication consisting of sounds, words, ...
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disorder
noun
uk
/dɪˈsɔː.dər/us
/-ˈsɔːr.dɚ/
a state of untidiness or lack ...
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(Definition oflanguageanddisorderfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflanguage disorder

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Is childhood developmentallanguagedisordera risk for adult schizotypy and psychosis.
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A forkhead-domain gene is mutated in a severe speech andlanguagedisorder.
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Chapter 12, then, presents a case study of a 10-year-old child with a severelanguagedisorder.
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Localisation of a gene implicated in a severe speech andlanguagedisorder.
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His psychotic symptoms followed on the heels of autistic behaviors, vocal and motor tics, hyperactivity,languagedisorder, and oppositionality that had been present since infancy.
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Details from these assessments were used to identify individuals of normal intellect with receptivelanguagedisorderor autism spectrum disorders.
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In contrast, children identified as having alanguagedisorderused significantly fewer complete cohesive ties.
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A novel forkheaddomain gene is mutated in a severe speech andlanguagedisorder.
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At times, the speech andlanguagedisorderis so severe as to compromise a child's personal and social development.
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An adjective elicitation task could therefore identify language difficulties in very young children with suspected language disorders, while verb elicitation tasks could confirm alanguagedisorderdiagnosis in older preschoolers.
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Focusing on types found in each group (the two overall rows), it is clear that patterns differ widely depending on the presence or absence of alanguagedisorder.
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Praxic and nonverbal cognitive deficits in a large family with a genetically transmitted speech andlanguagedisorder.
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Praxic and nonverbal cognitive deficits in a large family with genetically transmitted speech andlanguagedisorder.
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Children with a pervasive developmental disorder, children with alanguagedisorderand normally developing children in situations with high- and low-level involvement of the caregiver.
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Therefore, this task should not be run on children with or withoutlanguagedisorderbefore that age, as the results would presumably not offer useful data.
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Until recently this heterogeneity has not been incorporated into investigations of language skills in autism, thus potentially obscuring important aspects oflanguagedisorderin this population.
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Children with a pervasive developmental disorder, children with alanguagedisorderand normally developing children in situations with high- and low level involvement of the caregiver.
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The disability is alanguagedisorder, as everyone now realises.
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Children with autistic spectrum disorder and specific speech andlanguagedisorderrequire intensive help.
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