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Contents: Language and thought: linguistic influence on developmental neural basis of ’theory of mind’ / Chiyoko Kobayashi -- Is a story the same as the sum of its parts? The deferential effects of context and isolated word training on reading fluency / Sandra Lyn Martin-Chang -- Children’s language and literacy learning during a science concept inquiry / Ni Chang -- Reading impairment in childhood: overview of the electrophysiological correlates of developmental dyslexia / Barbara Penolazzi, Chiara Spironelli and Allessandro Angrilli -- Interaction between flexible cognition and language comprehension in children with and without language impairment / Klara Marton -- Ready for tomorrow’s international world: content and language integrated learning (CLIL) providing children with good first and foreign language skills / Tuula Merisuo-Storm -- Language development in special populations: the case of selective mutism / Matilda E. Nowakowski ... [et al.] -- Early communicative channel in childhood: development and impairment / Gianluca Esposito and Paola Venuti -- Does language experience influence the acquisition of lexicon? Insights from the intellectual disability field / Bruno Facon and Thérèse Bollengier -- Late talkers: children with developmental dysphasia (longitudinal follow-up) / Olga Dlouha -- Early middle ear effusion and central auditory processing at age seven / Dale L. Johnson, Constance D. Baldwin and David P. McCormick -- Multilingual specific language impairment (SLI): future directions for research / Tanja Rinker and Steffi Sachse -- Longitudinal study between the apparent pain insensibility and the non verbal communication and symbolisation disorders in autism / Guillaume Bronsard ... [et al.].