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Adolescents with a history of specific language impairment (SLI) : strengths and difficulties in social, emotional and behavioral functioning

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Adolescents with SLI report having more difficulties with peers and having more mental health problems than do typical adolescents, and most adolescents see themselves as prosocial.
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This article is published in Research in Developmental Disabilities.The article was published on 2013-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 156 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire & Specific language impairment.

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Ten questions about terminology for children with unexplained language problems.

TL;DR: A survey of labels in current use found 132 different terms, 33 of which had 600 or more returns on Google Scholar between 1994 and 2013 as mentioned in this paper. Of the remainder, the term "specific language impairment" was the most commonly used.
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Neurobiological Basis of Language Learning Difficulties

TL;DR: There is a need to examine subcortical learning systems in children with language impairment and dyslexia, rather than focusing solely on cortical areas relevant for language, because of behavioural studies and fMRI studies in neurotypical adults.
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Education and employment outcomes of young adults with a history of developmental language disorder

TL;DR: At the group level, young people with a history of DLD more commonly have less skilled employment and more rarely achieve professional roles, and at the individual level there is considerable variation with smaller but not trivial proportions of young adults with a History of D LD showing good educational and employment outcomes.

Research in Developmental Disabilities

TL;DR: Healthy People 2010 had two overarching goals, one of which was to eliminate health disparities across the nation between manysubpopulations and thisgoal was not met and still remains an overarching goal for Healthy People 2020 (NCHS, 2012).
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Evidence-based intervention for preschool children with primary speech and language impairments: Child Talk – an exploratory mixed-methods study

TL;DR: A descriptive framework of SLT practice has been developed to support the discussions between therapists and families when making decisions regarding the selection of interventions and outcome measures and its effectiveness and cost-effectiveness in improving outcomes for preschool children with primary speech and language impairments.
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The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: A Research Note

TL;DR: Preliminary findings suggest that the SDQ functions as well as the Rutter questionnaires while offering the following additional advantages: a focus on strengths as as difficulties; better coverage of inattention, peer relationships, and prosocial behaviour; a shorter format; and a single form suitable for both parents and teachers, perhaps thereby increasing parent-teacher correlations.
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Prevalence of Specific Language Impairment in Kindergarten Children

TL;DR: The prevalence estimates obtained fell within recent estimates for SLI, but demonstrated that this condition is more prevalent among females than has been previously reported.
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The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: a pilot study on the validity of the self-report version.

TL;DR: The self-report version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) was administered to two samples of 11-16 year olds and the correlations between self- Report SDQ scores and teacher--or parent rated SDQ Score compared favourably with the average cross informant correlations in previous studies of a range of measures.
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Language-impaired preschoolers: a follow-up into adolescence.

TL;DR: A longitudinal follow-up of 71 adolescents with a preschool history of speech-language impairment, originally studied by Bishop and Edmundson (1987), found that children who still had significant language difficulties at 5;6 had significant impairments in all aspects of spoken and written language functioning, as did children classified as having a general delay.
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Self-enhancing and self-defeating ego orientation: Relations with task and avoidance orientation, achievement, self-perceptions, and anxiety.

TL;DR: This paper found that self-defeating ego orientation was associated with high anxiety and was negatively related to achievement and self-perceptions, while self-enhancing ego orientation is positively related to self-concept, self-efficacy, selfesteem, anxiety, and intrinsic motivation.
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