The landmark reference in the field, completely updated: a comprehensive treatment of a
disorder that is more prevalent than autism. Children with specific language impairment …

Research into the effect of phonetic complexity on phonological acquisition has a long
history in spoken languages. This paper considers the effect of phonetics on phonological …

This chapter reviews what we understand about sign language developmental disorders. As
with the study of language impairment in hearing children, much of the devil is in the detail …

Purpose This study focused on whether developmental communication disorders exist in
American Sign Language (ASL) and how they might be characterized. ASL studies is an …

This article describes the case of a deaf native signer of American Sign Language (ASL)
with a specific language impairment (SLI). School records documented normal cognitive …

Productivity—the hallmark of linguistic competence—is typically attributed to algebraic rules
that support broad generalizations. Past research on spoken language has documented …

Purpose This study examined the effectiveness of a combined phonological and semantic
intervention for children with specific language impairment who had word-finding difficulties …

In signed languages, the articulatory space in front of the signer is used grammatically,
topographically, and to depict a real or imagined space around a signer and thus is an …

The increasing diversity of the cultural and linguistic backgrounds of children in North
American and European countries challenges traditional approaches to language testing …

Various theories of developmental language impairments have sought to explain these
impairments in modality-specific ways–for example, that the language deficits in SLI or …