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Peer reviewedMentis, Michelle; Lundgren, Kristine – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1995
Comparison of the language development profiles of five children exposed prenatally to cocaine and associated risk factors with those of a matched nonexposed control group found that major differences between the two groups were in discourse-pragmatics, with less marked differences in syntactic development. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Cocaine, Congenital Impairments, Drug Abuse
