Search for dissertations about: "thesis on language delay"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 26 swedish dissertations containing the words thesis on language delay.
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1. Age and Constraints on Language Learning : First Language Retention and Second Language Acquisition in International Adoptees
Abstract : This thesis investigates the influence of age of acquisition on the long-term second language development of international adoptees. Because age of acquisition typically coincides with the onset of bilingualism, the study of maturational age effects in second language acquisition has been empirically and conceptually entangled with changes in language input and use. READ MORE
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2. Language problems at 2½ years of age and their relationship with school-age language impairment and neuropsychiatric disorders
Abstract : Background: International research has shown that language delay (LD) is associated with social, cognitive, emotional and/or behavioural deficiencies, but there is still a need for extended knowledge about LD at early age and its relationship with long-term language impairment and neuropsychiatric disorders in Swedish children. Aims: To study (a) if children with a positive screening result or a negative screening result at 2½ years of age showed persistent or transient language difficulties at 6 years of age and, (b) whether or not children identified by language screening at 2½ years of age were diagnosed with language, neurodevelopmental and/or neuropsychiatric impairments at school age. READ MORE
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3. Words and non-words : Vocabulary and phonological working memory in Arabic-Swedish-speaking 4–7-year-olds with and without a diagnosis of Developmental Language Disorder
Abstract : This thesis investigates the vocabulary skills and the non-word repetition (NWR) performance of 99 typically developing (TD) 4–7-year-old Arabic-Swedish-speaking children and 11 Arabic-Swedish-speaking children with a diagnosis of Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). The children’s early language development, family backgrounds and language exposure patterns are explored through parental questionnaires, and for the DLD children also via interviews with parents, teachers and speech-language pathologists regarding their developmental history, language skills and communicative behaviour. READ MORE
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4. Children who screen positive for language delay but not autism: from 2.5 to 6 years of age
Abstract : Background: Language disorders (LDs) are prevalent, affecting approximately 10% of children. Among them, 7.5% have developmental language disorder (DLD), while 2.5% have LD associated with a known medical condition. READ MORE
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5. Communicating Your Way to a Theory of Mind. The development of mentalizing skills in children with atypical language development
Abstract : This thesis aimed to study the development of theory of mind (ToM) in two groups of children with atypical language development, using a longitudinal design. The two groups were children with cerebral palsy and severe speech impairment (SSPI) (aged between 5 and 7 years at the first data collection) and deaf non-native, early signing, children (aged between 7 and 10 years at the first data collection), the emphasis being on the deaf children. READ MORE
