Cognitive and Linguistic Development in Children and Adolescents: 2nd Edition
A special issue of Children (ISSN 2227-9067). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Neurology & Neurodevelopmental Disorders".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 March 2025 | Viewed by 83
Special Issue Editors
Interests: language disorders; reading disorders; psychometrics; eHealth; intervention
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Interests: language development; reading and writing; psychometrics; reading disabilities; executive functioning
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue of Children which focuses on the cognitive and linguistic development of children and adolescents. Cognitive development entails all of the mental processes involved in acquiring, organizing, and using knowledge. Since the seminal work of Piaget, research on cognitive development, the factors that influence it, and its importance in other areas of development, has expanded substantially. Its relationship with linguistic development has attracted particular interest: it is well established that language builds on cognitive development, but language is also a vehicle that supports it. Therefore, researchers have frequently pointed out deficits in skills such as memory, executive function, reasoning, or problem solving in children with linguistic deficits and/or with reading/writing disabilities.
This Special Issue aims to present recent contributions to a more complete understanding of typical and atypical cognitive development, linguistic development (oral or written), and/or the relationship between them. Historically, the focus of cognitive and linguistic development has been placed on childhood, but this development continues in later stages of the life cycle. Thus, this Special Issue will include research conducted with children at various stages of development and/or adolescents, as well as longitudinal studies.
In this Special Issue, original research articles and reviews are welcome and research areas may include, but are not limited to, topics addressing both typical and atypical conditions or trajectories such as:
- Oral language development;
- Cognitive development;
- Reading and writing development;
- Specific language impairment;
- Reading and/or writing disabilities;
- Executive functioning;
- Memory;
- Reasoning and problem solving;
- The intervention/promotion of cognitive or linguistic skills (oral or written).
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Maria Luisa Lorusso
Dr. Irene Cadime
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Children is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.
Keywords
- oral language
- reading
- writing
- cognitive development
- neurodevelopmental disorders
- learning disabilitie
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