language impairment
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflanguageandimpairment
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language
noun
uk/ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/us/ˈlæŋ.ɡwɪdʒ/
a system of communication consisting of sounds, words, ...
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impairment
noun[U]
uk/ɪmˈpeə.mənt/us/ɪmˈper.mənt/
the act of spoiling something or making it weaker so that it is ...
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(Definition oflanguageandimpairmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Working memory capacity and language processes in children with specificlanguageimpairment.
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The effects of processing capacity and sustained selective attention on the temporal processing performance of children with specificlanguageimpairment.
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A method for studying the generalized slowing hypothesis in children with specificlanguageimpairment.
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Relation of working memory to off-line and real-time sentence processing in children with specificlanguageimpairment.
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Mapping theories of developmentallanguageimpairment: premises, predictions and evidence.
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A further distinction made within the group of children with autism is between children with and withoutlanguageimpairment.
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Which people with specificlanguageimpairmenthave auditory processing deficits?
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All children were diagnosed by a speech and language therapist as having a primarylanguageimpairment.
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Such findings do not themselves imply that phonological memory capacity deficits directly cause specificlanguageimpairment.
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A group of 4- to 5-year-olds with specificlanguageimpairmentcompleted the same verb extension task.
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Effects of input manipulations on the word learning abilities of children with and without specificlanguageimpairment.
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Testing the generalized slowing hypothesis in specificlanguageimpairment.
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Surprisingly, only 24% of family members diagnosed as language impaired met the diagnostic classification forlanguageimpairmentalone.
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However, our data suggest that this highly selective profile oflanguageimpairmentis relatively rare.
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Verbal working memory and sentence comprehension in children with specificlanguageimpairment.
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On the relationship between mental representations and naming in a child with specificlanguageimpairment.
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Factors that influence lexical and semantic fast mapping of young children with specificlanguageimpairment.
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The role of processing limitations in early identification of specificlanguageimpairment.
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An examination of verbal working memory capacity in children with specificlanguageimpairment.
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Word-learning by preschoolers with specificlanguageimpairment: what predicts success?
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