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Book Chapter: Language and Literacy in the context of early life adversity.

Snow, P., Leitão, S. & Kippin, N. (2020). Language and Literacy in the context of early life adversity. In J. S. Damico, N. Müller , & M. J. Ball (Eds.), The handbook of language and speech disorders. 2nd Ed (pp. 266-285). Wiley-Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119606987.ch13

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The oral and written narrative language skills of adolescent students in youth detention and the impact of language disorder.

Kippin, N. R., Leitão, S., Finlay-Jones, A., Baker, J., & Watkins, R. (2021). The oral and written narrative language skills of adolescent students in youth detention and the impact of language disorder. Journal of Communication Disorders, 90, 106088. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2021.106088

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Language diversity, language disorder, and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder among youth sentenced to detention in WA.

Kippin, N. R., Leitão, S., Watkins, R., Finlay-Jones, A., Condon, C., Marriott, R., Mutch, R. C., & Bower, C. (2018). Language diversity, language disorder, and fetal alcohol spectrum disorder among youth sentenced to detention in Western Australia. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2018.09.004

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Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and youth justice.

Bower, C., Watkins, R. E., Mutch, R. C., Marriott, R., Freeman, J., Kippin, N. R., Safe, B., Pestell, C., Cheung, C.S.C., Shield, H., Tarratt, L., Springall, A., Taylor, J., Walker, N., Agiro, E., Leitão, S., Hamilton, S., Condon, C., Passmore, H. M., & Giglia, R. (2018). Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and youth justice: a prevalence study among young people sentenced to detention in Western Australia. BMJ open, 8(2), e019605. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/8/2/e019605

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Exploring the impact of living with dyslexia: The perspectives of children and their parents.

Leitão, S., Dzidic, P., Claessen, M., Gordon, J., Howard, K., Nayton, M., & Boyes, M. E. (2017). Exploring the impact of living with dyslexia: The perspectives of children and their parents. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 19:3, 322-334. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2017.1309068

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