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Heritability of Specific Language Impairment and Nonspecific Language Impairment at Ages 4 and 6 Years Across Phenotypes of Speech, Language, and Nonverbal Cognition.
Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR - 23 Mar 2020
Rice Mabel L, Taylor Catherine L, Zubrick Stephen R, Hoffman Lesa, Earnest Kathleen K
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Purpose Early language and speech acquisition can be delayed in twin children, a twinning effect that diminishes between 4 and 6 years of age in a population-based sample. The purposes of this study were to examine how twinning effects influence the identification of children with language impairments at 4 and 6 years of age, comparing children with specific language impairment (SLI) and nonspecific language...
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