High heritability of speech and language impairments in 6-year-old twins demonstrated using parent and teacher report

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 173-184

  Bishop, Dorothy V M ^a   Laws, Glynis ^a   Adams, Caroline ^a   Norbury, Courtenay Frazier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment; Checklist; Genetics; Pragmatics; Specific language impairment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILDREN COMMUNICATION CHECKLIST; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; RATING SCALE; SPEECH DISORDER; TEACHER; TWINS; VALIDITY;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASES IN TWINS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; OBSERVER VARIATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPEECH DISORDERS; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; WALES;

EID: 33646368736     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-005-9020-0     Document Type: Article

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