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This study examined the 7-year outcome of speech/language (S/L) impaired and control children selected from a community sample at age 5 years.

Two hundred fifteen children completed a variety of speech and language tests at age 12 years. Children with S/L impairment were further classified as “speech only”, “language only”, or “speech and language impaired.” Results: More than 72% of children who had S/L impairment at age 5 remained impaired at age 12. Children with both speech and language problems were most likely to remain S/L impaired; 81% had some kind of S/L impairment at follow-up. Similarly, children with both expressive and receptive language impairment were more likely to show expressive or receptive impairment at follow-up than children with expressive impairment alone. One third of time 1 controls had S/L problems at follow-up, and of these 82% had speech …