Language Disorders in the Preschool Years

To sum up, developments in the area of preschool language disorders will center on both early identification and intervention. Current research methods that examine infants' ability to process language might be refined to the point where they can serve as a means of identifying likely language problems in infants in the first year of life. Future language intervention activities might well benefit from research focusing on the prosodic contours of the young child's language input, the relationships that hold among subunits of the grammar, and the role of autobiographical memory in children's developing knowledge about themselves.

Key Words: language disorders, preschool years, childhood language

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