Developmental Language Disorders: From Phenotypes to Etiologies

✍ Scribed by Mabel L. Rice, Steven F. Warren

• Publisher: Psychology Press
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 428
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Developmental Language Disorders: From Phenotypes to Etiologies is based on the recent conference of the same name sponsored by the Merrill Advanced Studies Center of the University of Kansas. In the past 10 years, considerable advances have taken place in our understanding of genetic and environmental influences on language disorders in children. Significant research in behavioral phenotypes, associated neurocortical processes, and the genetics of language disorders has laid the foundation for further breakthroughs in understanding the reasons for overlapping etiologies, as well as the unique aspects of some phenotypes. Too often the findings are disseminated in a fragmented way because of the discrete diagnostic categories of affectedness. This volume attempts to assimilate and integrate the findings of the transdisciplinary research toward a more coherent picture of behavioral descriptions, brain imaging studies, genetics, and intervention technologies in language impairment. The contributing authors are all scholars with active programs of research funded by the National Institutes of Health involving diverse clinical groups of children with language impairments.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
1 Introduction......Page 14
I: PHENOTYPES OF LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENTS WITHIN CLINICAL DIAGNOSES......Page 18
2 Trajectory of Language Development in Autistic Spectrum Disorders......Page 20
3 Do Autism and Specific Language Impairment Represent Overlapping Language Disorders?......Page 44
4 Dimensions of Individual Differences in Communication Skills Among Primary Grade Children......Page 66
5 Language, Social Cognition, Maladaptive Behavior, and Communication in Down Syndrome and Fragile X Syndrome......Page 90
6 Investigating Knowledge of Complex Syntax: Insights From Experimental Studies of Williams Syndrome......Page 112
7 Research on Fragile X Syndrome and Autism: Implications for the Study of Genes, Environments, and Developmental Language Disorders......Page 134
II: INVESTIGATING LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENTS ACROSS DIAGNOSTIC CATEGORIES......Page 164
8 Cross-Etiology Comparisons of Cognitive and Language Development......Page 166
9 Intervention as Experiment......Page 200
10 Growth Models of Developmental Language Disorders......Page 220
11 Linguistics and Linking Problems......Page 254
III: NEURAL, GENETIC, AND BEHAVIORAL ELEMENTS OF INHERITED FACTORS......Page 302
12 Genes, Language Disorders, and Developmental Archaeology: What Role Can Neuroimaging Play?......Page 304
13 Localization and Identification of Genes Affecting Language and Learning......Page 346
14 Genotype–Phenotype Correlations: Lessons From Williams Syndrome Research......Page 372
IV: RESEARCH ACTION STEPS FOR THE SHORT AND LONG TERM......Page 388
15 Next Steps in the Study of Genetics and Language Disorders......Page 390
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