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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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Explicit grammar intervention in young school-aged children with Developmental Language Disorder.

Calder, S., D., Claessen, M., Ebbels, S., & Leitão, S. (2020). Explicit grammar intervention in young school-aged children with Developmental Language Disorder: An efficacy study using single-case experimental design. Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 51(2), 298-316. https://doi.org/10.1044/2019_LSHSS-19-00060

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Oral literal and inferential narrative comprehension in young typically developing children and children with developmental language disorder.

Dawes, E. Leitão, S., Claessen, M. (2019) Oral literal and inferential narrative comprehension in young typically developing children and children with developmental language disorder, International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 21 (3), 275-285. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2019.1604803

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Fast mapping short and long words.

Jackson, E., Leitão, S., Claessen, M. & Boyes, M. E. (2019) Fast mapping short and long words: Examining the influence of phonological short-term memory and receptive vocabulary in children with developmental language disorder, Journal of Communication Disorders, 79, 11-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcomdis.2019.02.001

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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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A profile of the language and cognitive skills contributing to oral inferential comprehension in young children with DLD.

Dawes, E., Leitão, S., Claessen, M., & Kane, R. (2018). A profile of the language and cognitive skills contributing to oral inferential comprehension in young children with developmental language disorder. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 53(6), 1139-1149. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12427

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