What is it about?
Twins are more likely to have late language emergence. This study looked at a range of prenatal (before birth) and perinatal (at-birth) risks.
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Why is it important?
The results suggest that adverse prenatal and perinatal environments are important in the etiology of LLE in twins at age 2. It is important that health professionals discuss twin pregnancy and birth risks for delayed speech and language milestones with parents and provide ongoing developmental monitoring for all twins, not just twins with overt disability.
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This page is a summary of: Prenatal and perinatal risks for late language emergence in a population-level sample of twins at age 2, BMC Pediatrics, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1186/s12887-018-1035-9.
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