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To investigate the behavioral and emotional status of preschool children with language impairment compared to matched controls and determine the basis of co-occurring psychiatric symptoms.

January 1, 1989Development and Psychopathology

Behavioral/emotional profiles of preschool language-impaired children

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PTPaula TallalRutgers, The State University of New Jersey DDDianne DuketteCenter for Neurosciences SCSusan CurtissRutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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Case-control study reveals behavioral differences in language-impaired preschoolers reflect perceptual and motor deficits, suggesting apparent psychiatric issues stem from neurodevelopmental delay.

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To investigate the behavioral and emotional status of preschool children with language impairment compared to matched controls and determine the basis of co-occurring psychiatric symptoms.
Assessed preschool-age language-impaired children and matched controls using parent reports on broad- and narrow-band scales of the Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL).
Re-evaluated group differences after removing CBCL items assessing attention, perception, and motor functions, and correlated these items with a battery of non-verbal perceptual-motor tasks.
Broad-band CBCL syndromes showed significant group differences for boys but not girls, whereas narrow-band differences were limited to the Immaturity scale for boys and Social Withdrawal for girls.
Excluding attention-, perception-, and motor-related items from the CBCL eliminated nearly all significant differences between language-impaired children and controls.
Parent ratings on CBCL perceptual and motor items correlated strongly with child performance on objective non-verbal attention, perception, and motor tasks.

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Tallal et al. (1989) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1034c8b6f5ee040160667a https://doi.org/10.1017/s0954579400000249

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Case-control study reveals behavioral differences in language-impaired preschoolers reflect perceptual and motor deficits, suggesting apparent psychiatric issues stem from neurodevelopmental delay.

Behavioral/emotional profiles of preschool language-impaired children

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Behavioral/emotional profiles of preschool language-impaired children

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