NIH R01 · 2025
Lexico-semantic abilities in early language growth and delay
Project Summary: Children with language disorders are at risk for a host of negative health and academic consequences, and represent at least 7% of the school-aged population. This project addresses two critical public-health needs regarding language disorders: (1) Characterizing early lexico-semantic skill trajectories with the goal of (2) Improving early identification. We focus on several promising assessments of lexico-semantic abilities in toddlers, as lexico-semantic skills are a component of language which is affected in school-age children with developmental language disorders, and can also be reliably measured in toddlers. We propose to recruit a large group of 18-month-old…
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