… specific language impairment (SLI) as a primary linguistic deficit. The existing literature
related to each of the explanations is outlined; an evaluation statement is offered for each. Cross-…

Specific language impairment (SLI) is diagnosed when a child's language development is
deficient for no obvious reason. For many years, there was a tendency to assume that SLI was …

… 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. …

… I will return to children with ASD and language impairments in the later section on co-morbidity.
Although the profiles and severity of language impairments vary across subjects, we …

… of the public eye, specific language impairment has been the … history of the study of specific
language impairment, and it also … to explain the nature of specific language impairment are …

… Specific language impairment (SLI) is a form of developmental language impairment in
which children demonstrate unexpected difficulties with the acquisition of spoken language. …

Developmental dyslexia and specific language impairment (SLI) were for many years treated
as distinct disorders but are now often regarded as different manifestations of the same …

… are thought, on clinical grounds, to have specific language impairments. What is needed
are improved measures of underlying impairment that mesh better with clinical impressions of …

… The aim of the present study was to investigate the speed with which children with specific
language impairment (SLI) respond on a range of tasks. Seventy-seven third-grade children …

… language scores of 110 children with a specific reading disability (SRD) and 102 children
with a specific language impairment … with an SRD have impaired oral language, and 51% of …