Children with specific language impairment (SLI) have difficulties with spoken language.
However, some recent research suggests that these impairments reflect underlying cognitive …

Background Specific language impairment (SLI) is diagnosed when language is significantly
below chronological age expectations in the absence of other developmental disorders …

Background Previous research suggests that speakers are especially likely to produce
manual communicative gestures when they have relative ease in thinking about the spatial …

Purpose The aim of this study was to determine whether children with language impairment
(LI) use gesture to compensate for their language difficulties. Method The present study …

Purpose To examine gesture and motor abilities in relation to language in children with
language impairment (LI). Method Eleven children with LI (aged 2; 7 to 6; 1 [years; months]) …

Purpose The purpose of the study was to investigate the role that cospeech gestures play in
lexical production in preschool-age children with expressive specific language impairment …

The aim of this article is to provide clinicians and researchers a comprehensive overview of
the development and functions of gesture in childhood and in select populations with …

Purpose The aim of this study was to investigate whether children with receptive-expressive
language delay (R/ELD) and expressive-only language delay (ELD) differ in their use of …

The repertoire and timing of gestures accompanying speech were compared in children with
specific language impairment (SLI), aged 5—10 years, in typically developing peers (CA) …

This review paper, based on a keynote address to the 2007 Speech Pathology Australia
National Conference, summarizes three recent research studies that pertain to gesture as an …