New research from University of East Anglia reveals why some children may be slower to learn words than others. A study published investigates where toddlers look when they learn new words. It finds that children with larger vocabularies looked quickly towards objects when learning new words. Meanwhile, children who knew fewer words looked back and […]
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Children with a migration background often misdiagnosed as having an “impairment of language acquisition” : Around 45% of children in Austrian day nurseries have a first language other than German. Those who are experiencing difficulty in learning the second language are often diagnosed as having a suspected “impairment of language acquisition”. In fact, this often […]
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