It has frequently been claimed that children with specific language impairment (SLI) have
impaired auditory perception, but there is much controversy about the role of such deficits in …

It has been proposed that specific language impairment (SLI) is the consequence of low‐
level abnormalities in auditory perception. However, studies of long‐latency auditory ERPs …

An influential theory attributes developmental disorders of language and literacy to low‐level
auditory perceptual difficulties. However, evidence to date has been inconsistent and …

McArthur and Bishop (2004) found that people with specific language impairment (SLI) up to
14 years of age have poor behavioural frequency discrimination (FD) thresholds for 25-ms …

Pre-linguistic sensory deficits, especially in “temporal” processing, have been implicated in
developmental language impairment (LI). However, recent evidence has been equivocal …

Event‐related potentials (ERPs) to tone pairs and single tones were measured for 16
participants with specific language impairment (SLI) and 16 age‐matched controls aged …

Purpose To explore the sensitivity of children with specific language impairment (SLI) to
amplitude-modulated and durational cues that are important for perceiving suprasegmental …

There is a general consensus that many children and adults with dyslexia and/or specific
language impairment display deficits in auditory processing. However, how these deficits …

This study tested if children with specific language impairment (SLI) or children with specific
reading disability (SRD) have abnormal brain responses to sounds. We tested 6‐to 12‐year …

Deficits in identification and discrimination of sounds with short inter‐stimulus intervals or
short formant transitions in children with specific language impairment (SLI) have been …