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Factors associated with language impairment

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The Early Identification of Language Impairment in Children

Part of the book series: Therapy in Practice Series ((TPS,volume 30))

Abstract

In the last chapter we saw how early attempts at defining language impairment have proved to be more successful in theory than in practice. Despite various attempts to provide a complete classificatory system, we are still at the stage of describing the conditions themselves. This chapter expands this descriptive framework to include factors found to be associated with language impairment which are not linguistic in nature. In some cases these are known to cause language difficulties. More commonly they co-occur and the nature of the relationship between them remains unclear.

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Law, J. (1992). Factors associated with language impairment. In: Law, J. (eds) The Early Identification of Language Impairment in Children. Therapy in Practice Series, vol 30. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-4445-0_3

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