caa a22 4500 386339562 CHVBK 20180307111744.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198901 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0954579400000249 doi S0954579400000249 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0954579400000249 Behavioral/emotional profiles of preschool language-impaired children [Elektronische Daten] Previous research has suggested that language-impaired (LI) children have a high prevalence of psychiatric disorders, and conversely, that children being treated for psychiatric disorders have a high incidence of language impairment. To investigate the relationship between developmental language and psychiatric disorders further, the behavioral and emotional status of a large, well-defined group of preschool-age LI and matched control children were evaluated using the Achenbach Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). Based on parent report, data were analyzed for broad- as well as narrow-band syndromes. For the broad-band syndromes, results demonstrated significant between-group differences for boys, but not girls. However, for the narrow-band syndromes, unexpectedly few significant between-group differences were found for boys or girls. Only the Immaturity scale for boys and Social Withdrawal scale for girls proved significantly different between groups. Inspection of the items that comprised these two scales revealed a high prevalence of items which relate to attention, perception, and motor functions. As previous research with LI children has demonstrated that highly significant perceptual/motor disorders characterize this population, additional analyses were performed to determine the extent to which attention, perception, and motor items on the CBCL contributed to the significant group differences found. When items classified as assessing attention, perception, or motor functioning were excluded, few significant between-group differences remained. Subsequent analyses demonstrated a high correlation between the CBCL items classified as assessing attention, perception, or motor functions and the performance of LI and normal children on a battery of non-verbal attention, perception, and motor tasks. These results suggest that psychiatric disorders previously identified in LI children may be related primarily to specific neurodevelopmental delay in perceptual/motor functioning. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Tallal Paula Center for Molecular Behavioral Neurosciences, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ Dukette Dianne Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego Curtiss Susan Department of Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles Development and Psychopathology Cambridge University Press 1/1(1989-01), 51-67 0954-5794 1:1<51 1989 1 DPP https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579400000249 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579400000249 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tallal Paula Center for Molecular Behavioral Neurosciences, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dukette Dianne Department of Psychology, University of California, San Diego NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Curtiss Susan Department of Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Development and Psychopathology Cambridge University Press 1/1(1989-01), 51-67 0954-5794 1:1<51 1989 1 DPP CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge