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Bilingualism is also on the political agenda – the all party parliamentary group on modern languages launched its Manifesto for Languages in July, and is calling on political parties to make school-age language learning a top governmental priority in 2015.

In the school-age years, language delays generally resolve to some degree, but a sizable subset of the language-disabled population goes on to exhibit specific deficits in reading (e.g., dyslexia; [ 12]).

There is a wide range in education strategies for children who reach school age speaking only a foreign language.

The twenty-one survivors, on whom we followed up at school age, have sequelae consisting of language disorder (52%), motor disability (48%), intelligence quotient < 80 (43%), epilepsy (33%), sensorineural hearing loss (17%), visual deficits (10%), abducens nerve palsy (5%), microcephaly (5%), and hydrocephalus (5%).

Language characteristics of school age children with DS show that their receptive vocabulary is relatively better, but their receptive syntax is lower than their nonverbal cognitive level.

Nelson and colleagues [ 19] found that children with hearing loss identified through UNHS obtained better language outcomes at school age than those not screened, and that screened infants identified with hearing loss had significantly earlier referral, diagnosis and treatment than those not screened.

We hypothesized that the CYP19A1 gene, shown to be disrupted by the translocation t(2 15)(p12 q21), influences speech and language early in life, and reading at school age.

It is estimated that up to one in eight secondary school age children In England do not speak English as their first language.

This is not routinely done, even though language delay can have considerable negative consequences at school age [ 53].

Thus, many Aboriginal children reach school age having had recurrent or continuous ear infections with serious consequences, in particular hearing loss and impaired language development.

In the next step the language was adapted to a simple level to be understood by children of elementary school age.