Young voices are finding the rhythm of language this semester at Appalachian State, where a new clinical partnership ...

Children and young adults with vs without autism spectrum disorder had a higher prevalence of gastrointestinal, sleep, and anxiety-related disorders, underscoring the need to examine comorbidities ...

Purpose: to analyze the effects of equine-therapy services on the verbal and nonverbal communicative abilities of children with autism spectrum disorder, after 10 sessions of the Step-by-Step ...

Since the pandemic, more children have been starting school without being “school-ready”. In 2022-23, 33% of all children starting reception in England did not have the skills needed for success in ...

Six-year-old Antoni, born in the UK to Polish parents, speaks only a few English words in class and often looks confused when the teacher gives instructions. He could simply be adjusting to English—or ...

Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) can be difficult to diagnose, despite the condition being more prevalent than autism spectrum disorder, representing roughly 7.5% of 5-year-olds in ...

Exposure to SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy was associated with a 29% greater risk of neurodevelopmental diagnosis by age 3 years. The largest effects were observed in third-trimester exposures, ...

Abstract: Artificial intelligence (AI) has advanced the classification and management of speech and language disorders, by learning diagnostic patterns from acoustic, prosodic, and linguistic signals.