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	Parents - Understanding Language Delay and Disorders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		They learn language by listening to and interacting with others, and through involvement with their world.
		Fortunately, early intervention for children with language delays and their families has proven to be very effective.
		We have developed a number of programs to help parents and those who care for and work with young children with language delays learn to foster the communication and social skills of these children to give them the greatest chance of reaching their potential.
	www.hanen.org /Hanen2002/pages/Parents/UnderstandingLanguageDelay/UnderstandingLanguageDelay.htm (617 words)

	Speech and Language Delay
		Language delay affects a good number of children betweeb the ages 2 and 5.
		The symptoms of language delay are delayed acquistion of vocabulary, of sentence structure, and of pronounciation of new or complex words.
		Expressive language delay is associated with different causes, such as prolonged middle ear infection - otits media - which causes fluctuating hearing loss, lack of opportunities to communicate (the result of major illnesses, isolation, etc.), /partly organized exposure to several languages/, or to a genetic predisposition.
	www.ooaq.qc.ca /Fiches/en_retard.htm (542 words)

	Medicdirect - Comprehensive UK Health Information
		Abnormalities in speech and language development are mainly dealt with by the speech and language therapists.
		Delayed speech at this age might be the first signs of mental retardation that was missed earlier or even mild to moderate hearing problems.
		The other causes of general developmental delay with language delay are usually managed by paediatricians along with the speech therapists.
	www.medicdirect.co.uk /clinics/default.ihtml?step=4&pid=1818 (1521 words)

	Disability Info: Speech and Language Disorders Fact Sheet (FS11)
		These delays and disorders range from simple sound substitutions to the inability to understand or use language or use the oral-motor mechanism for functional speech and feeding.
		A child's communication is considered delayed when the child is noticeably behind his or her peers in the acquisition of speech and/or language skills.
		A language disorder is an impairment in the ability to understand and/or use words in context, both verbally and nonverbally.
	www.nichcy.org /pubs/factshe/fs11txt.htm (967 words)

	Language Delay - New Treatments, January 22, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		One other thing also, if a parent comes in to you and says their child is language delayed, believe them.
		So if you have a child who has language delay and you want to do a further test in the office, those are two tests that you can do.
		The kids with mild hearing loss may not yet have any abnormalities of language skill, except they may be a little slow in developing their language skills, in terms of words and sentences.
	www.ccspublishing.com /journals5a/language_delay.htm (958 words)

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		Language delays and/or disorders may be identified by a number of different school personnel.
		The person assessing language should have graduate work in the area and be experienced in the administration and interpretation of the assessment tools being used.
		Language impairment results from the delayed or disordered development of the content, form, or use of spoken language.
	www.edu.gov.nf.ca /special/speech.htm (807 words)

	Specific Language Impairment, a Developmental Delay
		Language acquisition is the primary area of concern as the child grows and develops.
		Specific language impairment is the precise name that opens the door to research about how to help a child grow and learn.
		Rice, M. A unified model of specific and general language delay: Grammatical tense as a clinical marker of unexpected variation.
	merrill.ku.edu /IntheKnow/sciencearticles/SLIfacts.html (1388 words)

	Exec Summary Vol 2: No. 9. Screening for speech and language delay: a systematic review of the literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Such delays are important because they cause concern to parents, because they are commonly associated with be havioural and other difficulties in the pre-school period and because they constitute a risk factor for subsequent poor school performance, and for a wide range of personal and social difficulties for the individuals concerned.
		Currently the identification and treatment of speech and language delays fall within the remit of the health services in the early years of life and most health trusts have in place informal procedures for identifying such delays.
		The number of potential cases of primary speech and language delay is high, with a median figure of 5.95% reported for delays in either speech or language.
	www.hta.nhsweb.nhs.uk /execsumm/SUMM209.HTM (1431 words)

	language delay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		A delay in language is determined based on age...
		In this condition, a delay occurs in the maturation of the central...
		Incidence of receptive language delay and outcomes for intervention.
	www.english-megasite.com /articles/28/language-delay.html (581 words)

	American Family Physician: Evaluation and Management of the Child with Speech Delay
		A delay in speech development may be a symptom of many disorders, including mental retardation, hearing loss, an expressive language disorder, psychosocial deprivation, autism, elective mutism, receptive aphasia and cerebral palsy.
		Exact figures that would document the prevalence of speech delay in children are difficult to obtain because of confused terminology, differences in diagnostic criteria, unreliability of unconfirmed parental observations, lack of reliable diagnostic procedures and methodologic problems in sampling and data retrieval.
		The bilingual child's comprehension of the two languages is normal for a child of the same age, however, and the child usually becomes proficient in both languages before the age of five years.
	www.findarticles.com /cf_0/m3225/11_59/55391762/p1/article.jhtml (1296 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Education \| Delay as language learning dwindles
		Alwena Lamping of the Nuffield Foundation said she hoped the delay was because Mr Clarke had stepped in to beef up the government's plans.
		Ms Lamping said the shift to encouraging an enthusiasm for languages among primary school children might work - if it was done properly, with well-trained language assistants, perhaps drawing on the pool of foreign students keen to study in the UK.
		She also highlighted the danger of a downward spiral: fewer people studying languages after 14 would mean fewer future language teachers.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/education/2500947.stm (745 words)

	Delayed Speech or Language Development
		Language is much broader and refers to the entire system of expressing and receiving information in a way that's meaningful.
		Speech delays in an otherwise normally developing child are rarely caused by oral impairments, such as problems with the tongue or palate (the roof of the mouth).
		Hearing problems are also commonly related to delayed speech, which is why a child's hearing should be tested by an audiologist whenever there's a speech concern.
	kidshealth.org /parent/emotions/behavior/not_talk.html (1764 words)

	Learning Disabilities OnLine: LD In-Depth: Late Blooming or Language Problem? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Factors such as the child's inborn ability to learn language, other skills the child is learning, the amount and kind of language the child hears, and how people respond to communication attempts can slow down or accelerate the speed of speech and language development.
		Although a child may be slow in language development, he or she should still be doing new things with language at least every month.
		The speech-language pathologist can administer tests of receptive and expressive language, analyze a child's utterances in various situations, determine factors that may be slowing down language development, and counsel parents on the next steps to take.
	www.ldonline.org /ld_indepth/speech-language/asha_lateblooming.html (983 words)

	BestBETs: Do grommets prevent language delay?...
		The use of language development as an outcome measure is problematic due to confounding factors, such as age, maternal education and comorbid conditions.
		In children with OME and language delay, there is no good evidence to suggest that insertion of ventilation tubes will improve language development.
		Language, Speech Sound Production, and cognition in three —year —old Children in relation to otitis media in their first three years of life.
	www.bestbets.org /cgi-bin/bets.pl?record=00137 (711 words)

	Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence: Language Delay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		The milestones of child language development --the onset of babbling, first words, first sentences--are quite variable across individuals in a culture, despite the universal similarity in the general ages of their development.
		However, in the unusual case that sign language is the medium of communication in the family rather than speech, such a child shows no delay in learning to use that language.
		It is only on entering specialized training programs for oral language development that the profoundly deaf child begins to acquire more spoken language, so that the usual preschool language gains are often made in the grade school years for such children.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g2602/is_0003/ai_2602000340 (1165 words)

	Child Language Research Center
		Abstract: A study was conducted to estimate the prevalence of specific language impairment (SLI) in monolingual, English-speaking, kindergarten children; determine the proportion of subtypes of SLI; and examine the association of SLI with background factors in the child.
		Despite the superficial differences across human languages, linguists believe that all human languages conform to a common set of abstract features involving the use of a finite set of words that are systematically combined according abstract grammatical principles to allow for the expression of a nearly limitless variety of messages.
		Theories of speech and language development predict that earlier implantation should provide improved benefits for speech and language development, and also, that growth in speech and language development should be constrained as the child approaches adolescence.
	www.uiowa.edu /~clrc/html-pages/text-only.html (15280 words)

	Speech and language development in infants and young children Caroline Bowen
		Language acquisition is partly innate and partly learned, as children interact with other people and the environment.
		Some are fast language learners and some are slow, so it is best not to compare one child's language development with another's.
		Even though they are concerned that their child's speech and language development may be unusual or slower than normal, people may hesitate to seek the professional advice of a speech-language pathologist.
	members.tripod.com /Caroline_Bowen/devel1.htm (1659 words)

	American Family Physician: Therapy for speech and language delay
		Primary speech disorder is defined as a speech and language delay in a child without behavior, hearing, or neurologic impairment.
		There is some evidence to support speech and language therapy in children with difficulty producing clear speech and expressive vocabulary if difficulties with receptive language are not present.
		Speech and language therapy interventions for children with primary speech and language delay or disorder.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3225/is_12_69/ai_n6159462 (509 words)

	Keep an Ear Out for Language Delays in Children - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Language delays can range from a child being slow to begin talking, slow to develop vocabulary or slow to acquire proper sentence structure and word endings to slow to understanding the language.
		Language delays also encompass children from different cultural environments who may be slow to acquire use of English.
		For example, she has helped develop a Language Intervention Tool Kit with protocol to guide in discerning possible factors affecting infant or toddler development and suggestions for parents and other caregivers including specific activities to support infant and toddler language development.
	www.forbes.com /prnewswire/feeds/prnewswire/2005/07/01/prnewswire200507010001PR_NEWS_B_MWT_CG_CGF002.html (1086 words)

	ASHA: Early Identification of Speech-Language Delays
		Usually, there is concern about a child's speech and language skills if there is no speech by the age of 1 year, if speech is not clear, or if speech or language is different from that of other children of the same age.
		Early identification includes the evaluation and treatment provided to families and their children under 3 years old who have, or are at risk for having, a disability, or delay in speech, language or hearing.
		Because speech-language delays and disorders may be due to a variety of causes, each professional makes valuable contributions to the evaluation.
	www.kidsource.com /ASHA/early_identification.html (811 words)

	Language Delay - Tips & Activities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		A team of scientists with The Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network is turning to word-of-mouth — backed by a lot of high-tech support — to transfer early language development research into practice in child care centres across the country.
		One advantage of this Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network project is the link to THe Hanen Centre, which has an established network of speech language pathologists around the world trained by the centre and certified to use Hanen programs.
		One such training program is Learning Language and Loving It — The Hanen Program® for Early Childhood Educators, a research-based, intensive program which teaches child care providers how to promote children's language and literacy development.
	www.hanen.org /Hanen2002/pages/LanguageAndLiteracy/TurningResearchIntoPractice.htm (758 words)

	Speech Delay - speech and language frequently asked questions regarding speech therapists and speech therapy."> ...
		First, it is important to discuss any suspected speech or language delays with your child's pediatrician.
		Before a speech and language evaluation is conducted, a hearing screening or test should be conducted to rule out a hearing loss.
		There is a disorder called "specific language impairment" which means that there is no underlying cause for a language impairment (or the impairment is specific to language only).
	www.speechdelay.com /testrosefaqs.htm (924 words)

	language delay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Full text of the article, 'Language delay' from Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology, a publication in the field of Health and Fitness, is provided free of charge by LookSmart's FindArticles service.
		Keywords: speech, language, speech delay, language delay, speech and language, language development, speech development...
		Delayed language is the failure to comprehend or produce language at the expected age...
	www.english-learner.com /articles/31/language-delay.html (492 words)

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	adoption.6infostorm1.info /cat-adoption/language-delay-international-adoption.html (287 words)

	Activities for Expressive Language Delay
		Thus far, I have seen definitions of expressive delay and aides for receptive language delay and articulation, but nothing for the expressive language delay.
		Expressive language delays can be rooted in several possible areas.
		Children with language impairments tend to master the regular patterns and then over-apply them (rided, sleeped, feets, childs).
	www.helpforkidspeech.org /articles/detail.cfm?ID=561 (633 words)

	language delay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		Speech therapists share their expert information for parents and teachers concerning speech language delays, ages, milestones, developmental delays, special ed and other learning disabilities.
		A recognized innovator in family-focused early language intervention programs and learning resources for parents and...
		Language delay affects a good number of children betweeb the ages 2 and...
	learning-gd.com /articles/189/language-delay.html (230 words)

	Speech study seeks children with language delay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
		WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Three-year-old children who are having difficulty acquiring language skills are being sought for a new research program at Purdue University.
		Distinguished Professor Laurence B. Leonard and Barbara Brown, research associate in Purdue's Department of Audiology and Speech Sciences, are initiating a study designed to help children with language impairment.
		Youngsters age 3 to 4 1/2 who are accepted for the study will participate in twice weekly therapy sessions over a period of six to seven months.
	news.uns.purdue.edu /UNS/html3month/010928.Leonard.childstudy.html (358 words)

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