Emerging Issues in Child Language

Should Singing Activities Be Included in Speech and Voice Therapy for Prepubertal Children?

“…1 A variable minority are also reported to suffer from a short-or long-term singing disorder. 9 Although extremes of any of these disorders (speech, voice, singing) are believed to be rare, 10 the prevalence of speech disorders has been difficult to determine in detail because a variety of definitions have been proposed for them. 11 It would seem important to diagnose any vocal disability as early as possible because, if such disorders are left untreated, they may evolve into more severe versions.…”

“…9 This implies that the role of a teacher or a therapist, as well as other significant individuals around the child, can contribute significantly to the way that the child uses his or her voice and relates to it. 10 …”

Early Reading for Low-SES Minority Language Children: An Attempt to ‘Catch Them before They Fall’

“…Reading research in the past 30 years not only confirms the intricate symbiotic relationship that exists between reading and writing and oral language [14], but recognizes developmental dyslexia, a failure to learn to read that is not due to brain injury, as a problem in psycholinguistic processing. In this disorder, a deficit in phonological processing contributes to deficits in reading decoding, while deficits in syntax, semantics, vocabulary, and reading decoding largely account for failure in reading comprehension [1,[15][16][17].…”