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Definition: A condition, so far found only in girls, in which apparently normal early development is followed by partial or complete loss of speech and of skills in locomotion and use of hands, together with deceleration in head growth, usually with an onset between seven and 24 months of age. Loss of purposive hand movements, hand-wringing stereotypies, and hyperventilation are characteristic. Social and play development are arrested but social interest tends to be maintained. Trunk ataxia and apraxia start to develop by age four years and choreoathetoid movements frequently follow. Severe mental retardation almost invariably results.

Definition: A disorder in which the main feature is a serious impairment in the development of motor coordination that is not solely explicable in terms of general intellectual retardation or of any specific congenital or acquired neurological disorder. Nevertheless, in most cases a careful clinical examination shows marked neurodevelopmental immaturities such as choreiform movements of unsupported limbs or mirror movements and other associated motor features, as well as signs of impaired fine and gross motor coordination. | Clumsy child syndrome Developmental:coordination disorder | dyspraxia

Definition: A specific developmental disorder in which the child's understanding of language is below the appropriate level for its mental age. In virtually all cases expressive language will also be markedly affected and abnormalities in word-sound production are common. | Congenital auditory imperception Developmental:dysphasia or aphasia, receptive type | Wernicke's aphasia | Word deafness

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' A speech language pathologist was hired to do some community capacity-building around speech and language, who worked closely with the early childhood educators in that area.

We also evaluated the various components of the Roadmap for Canada's Official Languages 2008-13, including three initiatives in the area of economic development in the former and current roadmap, namely the Enabling Fund for Official Language Minority Communities, the Economic Development Initiative, and the Strengthening the Language Industry and Technologies program, which is part of the National Research Council of Canada's responsibility.

Health Canada recognizes the positive impact that this program is having in First Nations communities particularly on children's readiness to learn and First Nations language development.

I am today asking the Leader of the Government in the Senate is to recognize that French-language early childhood education services are vital to francophones in minority communities because they help fight assimilation, they contribute to children's linguistic development, and in the end, they help these children do better in school.