Language development after extreme childhood deprivation: a case study
This conference paper describes language development in a child who moved from a Romanian institution to England at six years old. Developmental and educational accounts describe expanding speech alongside continuing grammatical difficulties. The authors use the case to examine a theory of the timing of language development.
Limitations: A single historical case cannot distinguish effects of deprivation, education, therapy and individual differences. Some evidence comes from developmental reports and caregiver history. This is an early paper in the Brown language-research programme; exact participant overlap with later publications has not been established. Peer-review arrangements were not verified.
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- Empirical case study / conference paper
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- Age group
- Children
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Children
Adoption context: Intercountry adoption from Romanian institutions
Programme: Brown–Jones language development after Romanian institutional deprivation
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No adoption-sector organisational relationship identified from metadata reviewed. Funding and conflicts were not comprehensively audited; this is not confirmation of institutional independence.
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Topics: education, institutional deprivation, Language and communication
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Country as recorded: England
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