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Reading and writing are crucial life skills but roughly one in ten children are affected by dyslexia, which can persist into adulthood. Family studies of dyslexia suggest heritability up to 70%, yet few convincing genetic markers have been found.
Approximately 8% of all children experience developmental and mental health conditions. Similarities in characteristics across neurodevelopmental conditions-such as difficulties in communication and language, social interaction, motor coordination, attention, activity regulation, behavior, mood, and sleep-make it challenging to attribute these characteristics exclusively to specific diagnoses and assessments. The purpose of this study was to identify symptomatic domains across neurodevelopmental conditions in children and to explore dimension reduction for transdiagnostic assessment.
Variation in receptive vocabulary ability is associated with variation in children's school achievement, and low receptive vocabulary ability is a risk...
Prenatal exposure to testosterone is known to affect fetal brain maturation and later neurocognitive function.
The current study investigated the extent to which low levels of joint attention in infancy and parent-child book reading across early childhood increase the...
The present study investigated the relations among fetal testosterone, child socio-emotional engagement and language development...
Language is a robust developmental phenomenon, characterised by rapid and prodigious growth.
In the majority of people, language production is lateralized to the left cerebral hemisphere and visuospatial skills to the right.
The objective was to determine the association between maternal serum 25(OH)-vitamin D concentrations and behavioural, emotional and language outcomes...
The current study sought to further investigate in 91 English-speaking typically developing children and 30 children with specific language impairment...