Specific Language Impairment Across Languages

Children with specific language impairment (SLI) have a significant and longstanding deficit in spoken language ability that adversely affects their social and academic well‐being. Studies of children with SLI in a wide variety of languages reveal diverse symptoms, most of which seem to reflect weak...

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Published in:Child development perspectives 2014-03, Vol.8 (1), p.1-5
Main Author: Leonard, Laurence B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Child clinical studies
Children & youth
grammar
Language and communication disorders
Language disorders
Medical sciences
phonological short-term memory
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
specific language impairment
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Summary:Children with specific language impairment (SLI) have a significant and longstanding deficit in spoken language ability that adversely affects their social and academic well‐being. Studies of children with SLI in a wide variety of languages reveal diverse symptoms, most of which seem to reflect weaknesses in grammatical computation and phonological short‐term memory. The symptoms of the disorder are sensitive to the type of language being acquired, with extraordinary weaknesses seen in those areas of language that are relatively challenging for younger typically developing children. Although these children's deficits warrant clinical and educational attention, their weaknesses might reflect the extreme end of a language aptitude continuum rather than a distinct, separable condition.
ISSN:1750-8592
1750-8606
DOI:10.1111/cdep.12053