Research by Professor Courtenay Norbury finds that two children in every class experience language disorders

Research by Professor Courtenay Norbury (Research Department of Language & Cognition) and researchers at King’s College London, Royal Holloway, University of London and The Newcomen Centre at Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital, London has found that children with unexplained language disorders have higher social, emotional and behavioural problems, with 88% failing to achieve early curriculum targets.

The study was published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and funded by the Wellcome Trust and the NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre.

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