title: The poor-communicating two-year-old and his family.
abstract: Two groups of children have been studied. Each group consisted of 21 two-year-olds, who had been matched individually for age, sex and social class, but who had widely differing abilities in both comprehension and expression of language.High-risk families were defined as those in which there was evidence of significant social or emotional deprivation. There was a statistically significant correlation between delayed language development in a two-year-old and evidence of psychosocial deprivation in his family.
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007804:Language Development; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D011610:Psychosocial Deprivation