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Seeing the similarity between graphic patterns or concepts can indicate whether a child has language difficulties.

Children learn to understand language and to speak largely independently of cognitive functions like spatial awareness, working (short-term) memory and perception (interpreting and organizing sensory impressions), according to established theory and tradition within linguistics.

Professor Mila Vulchanova heads NTNU’s language laboratory and conducts research on language learning. Her research findings over several years have challenged this linguistics assumption and demonstrated clear associations between language development and cognitive skills.

Vulchanova’s latest research is based on data from the largest cohort study conducted in Norway. The Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa), under the auspices of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, is one of the world’s largest health surveys, with data from 114 500 children, 95 000 mothers and 75 000 fathers.

Mila Vulchanova and research colleagues from NTNU, the University of Oslo, Statped and the University of Melbourne have now catalogued new links between language development and cognitive skills.

Cognitive skills are a collective term for our ability to concentrate, pay attention, remember, our sense perception, logical reasoning and problem solving.

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