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Language-Impaired 4-Year-Olds: Distinguishing Transient from Persistent Impairment
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In a prospective, longitudinal study, 87 language-impaired children were assessed at the ages of 4, 4½, and 5½ years on a battery of language measures. In 37% of children, who were termed the "good outcome group," the language disorder had resolved by the age of 5½ years so that children were indistinguishable from a control group. If one restricted consideration only to those 68 children whose nonverbal ability was within normal limits, the figure rose to 44%. Outcome for individual children (good or poor) could be predicted with 90% accuracy on the basis of test measures obtained at 4 years. The best predictor was ability to tell back a simple story to pictures. The one language measure that did not relate to outcome was phonological competence.
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- Bishop, D. V. M., & Edmundson, A.
- Venue
- Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders
- Published
- 1987-05
- Volume
- 52
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 156-173
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- 0022-4677 (ISSN-L)
- 2163-6184
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- W1975038450
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- 8.26
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- journal article
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- en
- Open access
- closed
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