| | CJP - October 2003 - Behaviour in Children With Language Development Disorders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | Thirty-two children (34%) with LDD, 14 (31%) with an expressive language disorder, and 18 (37%) with a mixed receptive—expressive language disorder were reported as having behavioural problems by their mothers, whereas only 6 (6%) control subjects had CBCL scores within the clinical range. |
 | | Children with mixed disorders in receptive and expressive language development were indeed more likely to show scores within the clinical range with respect to withdrawal and attention problems, whereas children with disorders in expressive language development more frequently reported “somatic complaints”; however, group comparisons within both the language disorder groups yielded no significant differences. |
 | | Children with specific language impairment may have less social interaction with peers and may have difficulties entering social interactions, or unresponsive conversational styles may deflate the value of the child with language impairment as a conversational, and therefore social, partner (32). |
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