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Common variation near ROBO2 is associated with expressive vocabulary in infancy (2014)
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O'Reilly, P. F., St Pourcain, B., Cents, R. A., Whitehouse, A. J., Haworth, C. M., Davis, O. S., …Smith, G. D. (2014). Common variation near ROBO2 is associated with expressive vocabulary in infancy. Nature Communications, 5, https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5831

© 2014 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. Twin studies suggest that expressive vocabulary at ~24 months is modestly heritable. However, the genes influencing this early linguistic phenotype are unknown. Here we conduct a genome-wide s... Read More about Common variation near ROBO2 is associated with expressive vocabulary in infancy.

Characteristics of parent-child interactions: A systematic review of studies comparing children with primary language impairment and their typically developing peers (2014)
Journal Article
Babayiʇit, S., Blackwell, A. K., Blackwell, A., Harding, S., Babayigit, S., & Roulstone, S. (2014). Characteristics of parent-child interactions: A systematic review of studies comparing children with primary language impairment and their typically developing peers. Communication Disorders Quarterly, 36(2), 67-78. https://doi.org/10.1177/1525740114540202

© 2014 Hammill Institute on Disabilities. The importance of parent-child interaction (PCI) for language development has been well established. This has led many speech and language therapy (SLT) interventions to focus on modifying PCI as a means to i... Read More about Characteristics of parent-child interactions: A systematic review of studies comparing children with primary language impairment and their typically developing peers.