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Familiality Of Early Expressive Language Delay: A Sibling Study, Carol Lynn Unkefer
Familiality Of Early Expressive Language Delay: A Sibling Study, Carol Lynn Unkefer
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Researchers are seeking more information on how and why language disorders tend to run in families, particularly siblings of language disordered children.
The purpose of this study was to examine the prevalence of language and related disorders in the siblings of two groups of children: those with slow expressive language development (SELD) and those with a normal language history. This study sought to answer the following questions: 1) Is there a significant difference in prevalence of language problems in two groups of children: those with SELD and those with a normal language history?, and 2) Is there a greater probability …