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Many children fail to develop normal language for reasons not obviously due to anomalies of the brain. We are concerned here with the development of language in another group, children known to have sustained perturbations of brain structure and function—in utero, during infancy, or at some point in childhood.
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Dennis M (1980): Strokes in childhood. I: Communicative intent, expression, and comprehension after left hemisphere arteriopathy in a right-handed nine-year-old. In: Language Development and Aphasia in Children, Rieber R, ed. New York: Academic Press
Dennis M (1983): Syntax in brain-injured children. In: Psychobiology of Language, Sluddert-Kennedy M, ed. Cambridge: MIT Press
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Satz P, Bullard-Bates C (1981): Acquired aphasia in children. In: Acquired Aphasia, Sarno MT, ed. New York: Academic Press
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Dennis, M. (1989). Language after Damage to the Immature Brain. In: Speech and Language. Readings from the Encyclopedia of Neuroscience . Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6774-9_18
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