Research by Professor Courtenay Norbury finds that two children in every class experience language disorders
19 May 2016
Research by (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.