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Without instruction, most children master the complexities of spoken language by the age of 6 or 7 years. About 5% of apparently healthy children, however, struggle to acquire basic competence in one or more aspects of spoken language and are classified as having specific language impairment.

Genetic factors have an important role in many such cases.^1,2 Children with specific language impairment are four times as likely to have a family history of the disorder as are children who do not have such an impairment,³ and the concordance rate for the disorder is almost twice as great for monozygotic twins as . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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This article (10.1056/NEJMe0807813) was published at www.nejm.org on November 5, 2008.

From the Department of Psychology and the Center for Cognitive Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

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