Moving ahead in language: observations on a report of precocious language development in 3-4 year old children with spinal muscular atrophy type II.
Benony and Benony in a recent issue of this Journal have presented new data on the precocity of language acquisition in children with type II spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), at age 36-47 months. They refer to our interim report of advanced early language development in these motor-impaired children, which covers the age period 18-35 months. Here, we provide more details of our findings and discuss them in relation to their report and our theory of the role of the procedural system in language learning.
Sieratzki
Jechil S
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Woll
Bencie
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D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007804:Language Development; D008297:Male; D014897:Spinal Muscular Atrophies of Childhood / Q000523:psychology*; D014825:Vocabulary