Conclusion: DHA may influence the development of visual acuity and neural pathways associated with the developmental progression of language acquisition in term breast-fed infants.
Perhaps the most intriguing, but challenging, issue is the role of therapeutic intervention in the developmental trajectory of language.
This basic rule of thumb is, to a certain extent, consistent across acquired and developmental disorders of language.
These developmental studies of language production have given us a valuable understanding of how brain networks underlying complex linguistic and metalinguistic tasks might develop and change.
However, it has been proposed that typical developmental acquisition of language constraints relies on sensitivity to semantic distinctions within verbs [Pinker, 1984 ].
Firstly, in reference to developmental disorders of language, identifying regions that deviate from typical structural properties may in future provide a more accurate basis for diagnosis and effective remediation.
The notion that developmental disorders of language and literacy might reflect failure to develop normal cerebral lateralization dates back to Orton's earliest writings in the 1920s (Orton, 1966).
Other developmental fMRI studies of language production have focused on identifying patterns of language lateralization in individuals (Gaillard et al. 2004; Berl et al. 2014a), over tasks (Bookheimer et al. 2000; de Guibert et al. 2010; Lidzba et al. 2011) and over response modalities (Croft et al. 2013).
Examining subcategories of these comorbidities (e.g., the four digit ICD-9-CM level) revealed that children with ADHD+RD were more likely to be diagnosed with oppositional-defiant disorder (11.7% v 8.0%; P = 0.028), major depressive disorder, recurrent episode (5.3% v 3.0%; P = 0.026), and the learning disorder of developmental speech or language disorder (7.9% v 2.2%; P < 0.0001).
