title: Using the language characteristics of clinical populations to understand normal language development.
abstract: The overall purpose of this article is to describe the speech and language abilities of children who have selected clinical conditions, not only to characterize the outcomes of those conditions, but also to understand fundamental requirements for language learning in typically developing children. This developmental cognitive neuroscience analysis conceptualizes the clinical conditions as naturalistic experimental manipulations, selectively altering factors in the language-learning situation that could not otherwise be ethically manipulated in a research study.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, 750 Welch Road Suite 315, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. hfeldman@stanford.edu
authors.forename: Heidi M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Feldman
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D019929:Cochlear Implantation; D015897:Comorbidity; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology; D006319:Hearing Loss, Sensorineural / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D018887:Landau-Kleffner Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D010034:Otitis Media with Effusion / Q000453:epidemiology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012931:Social Environment; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors