Most children develop speech and language without effort, although there is considerable variation in the rate at which children acquire language with approximately 7% of children demonstrating impairments in these skills. Understanding the influences on children’s language development in the general population may indicate potential avenues for the causes of these impairments which may lead to the development of new intervention methods. Those influences could be either internal to the child or as existing in the child’s environment. Such influences are recognised to be interacting and dynamic. There is an established model of risk associated with social disadvantage and poor language and cognitive development in the early years.
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