The overall purpose of this article is to describe the speech and language abilities of
children who have selected clinical conditions, not only to characterize the outcomes of …

Language Development: Foundations, Processes, and Clinical Applications, Second Edition
provides an accessible overview of language development covering the typical course of …

The identification of language difficulties in young children is made possible through the use
of a variety of standardized assessment tools. Relative to young children, however, the …

Conclusions We have presented hypotheses that underscore the need to examine, in both
clinical practice and research, the particular language symptoms and characteristics of …

The five empirical articles in this special issue illustrate the value of a comparative approach
to the study of normal and abnormal language development. The information presented …

Advances in understanding the nature of language impairment in children over the past
decade have been abundant. In this paper, several recurring hypotheses about the nature of …

Preschool children who fail to develop effective speech at the expected age and whose
behavior is often aberrant present a serious challenge to parents, educators, speech and …

Language is one of the central components of being human and is an aspect that separates
us from the other primates with whom we share so much of our genetic structure. Language …

To understand the child's development of spoken language we must come to grips with a
great many things. We must figure out how children develop the emotional, social …

Background Specific language impairment (SLI) is defined as a developmental disorder in
which language comprehension and the child's ability to use expressive spoken language is …