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A group of six kids sitting at a kid-sized picnic table talking to each other.
Children from the Waisman Early Childhood Program (WECP) sitting and talking on a picnic table at the Discovery Garden (Photo © Andy Manis)

October 13, 2026

Gold standard test of child’s speech abilities may not capture the whole picture, new study reveals

Two well-established measures of how well a child is understood by others, previously believed to capture the same thing, are not well correlated in typically developing children when accounting for age, a new Waisman Center study shows.

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