Advancing knowledge of human development, developmental disabilities, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Dyadic caregiver-child interactions are commonly used to examine children’s language learning environments.
Attention is a key component of learning. Think of how hard it is to learn someone’s name if all you can think about is the eyelash on their cheek. The same can be said for language learning.
Dyadic caregiver-child interactions are commonly used to examine children’s language learning environments.
The purpose of this research is to better understand how skills related to executive function like memory and flexible thinking are related to grammar and language comprehension and production in children with FXS, DS, and DLD, and a comparison group of neurotypical children.
Our study aims to learn more about how language samples collected in the home can be used to measure the language development of children with Down syndrome.
People say between 150 and 200 words a minute on average during a casual conversation.
A recent study shows that boys with fragile X syndrome and co-occurring ASD (fragile X + ASD), and autistic boys have similar patterns of linguistic errors and omit more words in conversations compared to non-autistic boys.
Expressive language impairments are common among school-age boys with fragile X syndrome (FXS) and autistic boys.
The first two years of the grant provided funding for two seminars in an academic year, but in a short span, seeing the tangible benefits these had, they expanded from two lectures a year, to two a month.
A new study will investigate if language differences can predict the development of a neurodegenerative disorder in people that carry a premutation of the gene FMR1.
