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Genes and language impairment
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Most children are speaking well by the age of 6 or 7 years. An important minority (around 5%), however, have unexplained difficulty with aspects of speech and language and are said to have specific language impairment. Genetic factors are known to be important: children with specific language impairment are four times as likely as other children to have a family history of the condition and …