How Language Develops, What Goes Wrong, and Why It Matters: Following the Early Language in Victoria Study to Age 13

Language growth in verbal autistic children from 5 to 11 years

A Brignell, KJ Williams, S Reilly, AT Morgan

2024-10-01

To examine predictors and growth in language for verbal autistic and non-autistic children with/without low language from 4 to 11 ..

Using machine-learning methods to identify early-life predictors of 11-year language outcome

L Gasparini, DA Shepherd, EL Bavin, P Eadie, S Reilly, AT Morgan, M Wake

2023-08-01

Background: Language is foundational for neurodevelopment and quality of life, but an estimated 10% of children have a language di..

Associations between responsive parental behaviours in infancy and toddlerhood, and language outcomes at age 7 years in a population-based sample

P Levickis, P Eadie, F Mensah, C McKean, EL Bavin, S Reilly

2023-07-01

Background: A wealth of evidence supports the important role high-quality parent–child interactions play in children's early langu..

Health-related quality of life of caregivers of children with low language: Results from two Australian population-based studies

HND Le, F Mensah, P Eadie, E Sciberras, EL Bavin, S Reilly, M Wake, L Gold

2022-01-01

Purpose: To examine (1) the association between low language (LL) and caregiver’s health-related quality of life (HRQoL), (2) whet..

Infant Regulation: Associations with Child Language Development in a Longitudinal Cohort

F Cook, L Conway, E Omerovic, P Cahir, R Giallo, H Hiscock, F Mensah, L Bretherton, E Bavin, P Eadie, S Brown, S Reilly

2021-06-01

Objective: To determine whether infants who have regulatory problems (eg, sleeping, crying, and feeding problems) at 1 year of age..

The relationship between language difficulties, psychosocial difficulties and speech–language pathology service access in the community

D Trembath, G Conti-Ramsden, G Xie, F Cook, S Reilly

2021-03-01

Background: A range of factors may impact whether children access speech–language pathology (SLP) services, beyond their communica..

Predictors in Infancy for Language and Academic Outcomes at 11 Years

P Eadie, EL Bavin, L Bretherton, F Cook, L Gold, F Mensah, M Wake, S Reilly

2021-02-01

OBJECTIVES: To examine the contribution of early life factors and preschool- and school-aged language abilities to children's 11-y..

Prevalence and features of comorbid stuttering and speech sound disorder at age 4 years

R Unicomb, E Kefalianos, S Reilly, F Cook, A Morgan

2020-03-01

Background: Stuttering and speech sound disorder may co-occur during early childhood, although the exact rate of comorbidity in a ..

Validation of Dodd's Model for Differential Diagnosis of childhood speech sound disorders: a longitudinal community cohort study

K Ttofari Eecen, P Eadie, AT Morgan, S Reilly

2019-06-01

Aim: Dodd's Model for Differential Diagnosis is one of the available clinical diagnostic classification systems of childhood speec..

Infant regulation and child mental health concerns: A longitudinal study

F Cook, R Giallo, H Hiscock, F Mensah, K Sanchez, S Reilly

2019-03-01

OBJECTIVES: To examine profiles of infant regulatory behaviors and associated family abstract characteristics in a community sampl..

Investigation of the language tasks to include in a short-language measure for children in the early school years

J Matov, F Mensah, F Cook, S Reilly

2018-07-01

Background: The inaccurate estimation of language difficulties by teachers suggests the benefit of a short-language measure that c..

Language and social-emotional and behavioural wellbeing from 4 to 7 years: a community-based study

P Levickis, E Sciberras, C McKean, L Conway, A Pezic, FK Mensah, EL Bavin, L Bretherton, P Eadie, M Prior, S Reilly

2018-07-01

Language disorder (LD) and social-emotional and behavioural (SEB) difficulties are common childhood problems that often co-occur. ..

Quality of life in children with developmental language disorder

P Eadie, L Conway, B Hallenstein, F Mensah, C McKean, S Reilly

2018-07-01

Background: Developmental language disorder (DLD) is common in children, but little is known about its association with quality of..

Data resource profile: The child language repository (CLARE)

S Reilly, E Cini, L Gold, S Goldfeld, J Law, P Levickis, F Mensah, A Morgan, JM Nicholson, HND Le, A Pezic, B Tomblin, M Wake, L Wardrop

2018-06-01

Cohort profile: The early language in victoria study (ELVS)

S Reilly, F Cook, EL Bavin, L Bretherton, P Cahir, P Eadie, L Gold, F Mensah, S Papadopoullos, M Wake

2018-02-01

Subgroups in language trajectories from 4 to 11 years: the nature and predictors of stable, improving and decreasing language trajectory groups

C McKean, D Wraith, P Eadie, F Cook, F Mensah, S Reilly

2017-10-01

Background: Little is known about the nature, range and prevalence of different subgroups in language trajectories extant in a pop..

The history of stuttering by 7 years of age: Follow-up of a prospective community cohort

E Kefalianos, M Onslow, A Packman, A Vogel, A Pezic, F Mensah, L Conway, E Bavin, S Block, S Reilly

2017-10-01

Purpose: For a community cohort of children confirmed to have stuttered by the age of 4 years, we report (a) the recovery rate fro..

Service utilisation and costs of language impairment in children: The early language in Victoria Australian population-based study

HAND Le, L Gold, F Mensah, P Eadie, EL Bavin, L Bretherton, S Reilly

2017-07-04

Purpose: To examine (1) the patterns of service use and costs associated with language impairment in a community cohort of childre..

Language outcomes at 7 years: Early predictors and co-occurring difficulties

C McKean, S Reilly, EL Bavin, L Bretherton, E Cini, L Conway, F Cook, P Eadie, M Prior, M Wake, F Mensah

2017-03-01

OBJECTIVE: To examine at 7 years the language abilities of children, the salience of early life factors and language scores as pre..

Predicting Meaningful Differences in School-Entry Language Skills from Child and Family Factors Measured at 12 months of Age

C McKean, J Law, F Mensah, E Cini, P Eadie, K Frazer, S Reilly

2016-11-01

Early childhood services which seek to promote early language development are hampered by the absence of reliable methods to ident..

Speech sound disorder at 4 years: Prevalence, comorbidities, and predictors in a community cohort of children

P Eadie, A Morgan, OC Ukoumunne, K Ttofari Eecen, M Wake, S Reilly

2015-06-01

Aim: The epidemiology of preschool speech sound disorder is poorly understood. Our aims were to determine: the prevalence of idiop..

Developing a comprehensive model of risk and protective factors that can predict spelling at age seven: findings from a community sample of Victorian children

TA Serry, A Castles, FK Mensah, EL Bavin, P Eadie, A Pezic, M Prior, L Bretherton, S Reilly

2015-01-01

The paper reports on a study designed to develop a risk model that can best predict single-word spelling in seven-year-old childre..

Levers for Language Growth: Characteristics and Predictors of Language Trajectories between 4 and 7 Years

C McKean, FK Mensah, P Eadie, EL Bavin, L Bretherton, E Cini, S Reilly

2015-01-01

Evidence is required as to when and where to focus resources to achieve the greatest gains for children's language development. Ke..

Anxiety of children and adolescents who stutter: A review

KA Smith, L Iverach, S O'Brian, E Kefalianos, S Reilly

2014-01-01

Purpose: Adults who stutter have heightened rates of anxiety disorders, particularly social anxiety disorder, compared with non-st..

Predicting autism diagnosis by 7 years of age using parent report of infant social communication skills

C Veness, M Prior, P Eadie, E Bavin, S Reilly

2014-01-01

Aim The aim of this study is to identify social communication skills in infancy which predict autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagn..

Specific language impairment: A convenient label for whom?

S Reilly, B Tomblin, J Law, C McKean, FK Mensah, A Morgan, S Goldfeld, JM Nicholson, M Wake

2014-01-01

Background The term 'specific language impairment' (SLI), in use since the 1980s, describes children with language impairment whos..