TY - JOUR T1 - The poor-communicating two-year old and his family JF - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners JO - J R Coll Gen Pract SP - 880 LP - 887 VL - 25 IS - 161 AU - G. D. Starte Y1 - 1975/12/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/25/161/880.abstract N2 - Two groups of children have been studied. Each group consisted of 21 two-year-olds, who had been matched individually for age, sex and social class, but who had widely differing abilities in both comprehension and expression of language. High-risk families were defined as those in which there was evidence of significant social or emotional deprivation. There was a statistically significant correlation between delayed language development in a two-year-old and evidence of psychosocial deprivation in his family. ER -