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Based on an initial community sample of 1,655 5-year-old children, this report utilized the risk statistic to estimate a child's risk for developing a psychiatric disturbance depending on his or her status as speech/language-impaired. Results showed that risk estimates varied as a function of gender and source of information (teacher, parent, psychiatric reports). Overall, speech- and language-impaired children had a higher risk for developing a psychiatric disturbance compared with normal language controls, with speech/language-impaired girls being at greater risk than boys.
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This study was made possible by grant number 6606-2941-43 from Health and Welfare Canada. The authors gratefully acknowledge the Laidlaw Foundation, which provided assistance for the completion of this manuscript.
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Beitchman, J.H., Hood, J. & Inglis, A. Psychiatric risk in children with speech and language disorders. J Abnorm Child Psychol 18, 283–296 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00916566
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