This review summarizes what is known about the neurobiology of specific language impairment. Despite its name, specific language impairment is frequently not specific. It is common to find associated ...

Andrew Whitehouse receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council and the Australian Research Council. Language development is a truly remarkable phenomenon. But for a small ...

In the first molecular genetic study of families with a history of both language impairment and autism, scientists may have uncovered a shared origin for the two conditions, an important step toward ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rare mutations affecting the FOXP2 transcription factor cause a monogenic speech and language disorder. We hypothesized that neural pathways downstream of FOXP2 influence more common phenotypes, such ...

Recent studies aim at finding better ways to diagnose young children with language impairments. The work could lead to better treatments for individual children with communication disorders. Recent ...

Genes speak to each other in their own molecular dialect. By tracking one such conversation, scientists have identified a genetic relationship that may contribute to the common childhood language ...

Imagine if every conversation you had was like speaking with someone in a foreign language that you only partially understood. Your conversations—to the extent they could be called that—would be ...

There are strong genetic factors that influence the development of specific language impairment. Stromswold reviewed 14 studies that investigated the incidence of a positive family history of language ...

LAWRENCE — 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 ...