Developmental language disorder is a permanent condition that shows up in childhood, causing difficulties with speaking and comprehension. A new study has found that children with the disorder may ...

Srishti Nayak, PhD, assistant professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, is the study's lead author and a co-director of the Vanderbilt Music Cognition Lab. In a paper published in Nature ...

A rigorous analysis of numerous studies concludes that a part of the brain traditionally associated with movement is abnormal in children with developmental language impairments. The discovery has the ...

Dawna Duff, associate professor of speech and language pathology at Binghamton University, State University of New York, works with 6-year-old Arnav Sundeep. BINGHAMTON, N.Y. -- A team of ...

We sought to compare the long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes of late preterm, early term and term infants while controlling for a wide range of maternal complications and comorbidities. Data for the ...

Pervasive developmental disorders (PDD) — now known as autism spectrum disorder (ASD) — refers to a group of conditions that affect average development. It may appear as a delay in development of ...

Language disorder is a communication disorder in which a person has persistent difficulties in learning and using various forms of language such as spoken, written, or signed. They may struggle to ...

Speech therapy is the assessment and treatment of communication problems and speech disorders. It is performed by speech-language pathologists (SLPs), which are often referred to as speech therapists.