Background: Specific language impairment has previously solely been documented for
children acquiring spoken languages, despite informal reports of deaf children with possible …

This paper presents the first ever group study of specific language impairment (SLI) in users
of sign language. A group of 50 children were referred to the study by teachers and speech …

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 …

Children with specific language impairment (SLI) perform poorly on sentence repetition
tasks across different spoken languages, but until now, this methodology has not been …

There is controversy over the specificity of Specific Language Impairment (SLI), and whether
it is caused by a deficit general to cognition or in mechanisms specific to language itself. We …

This study details the first ever investigation of narrative skills in a group of 17 deaf signing
children who have been diagnosed with disorders in their British Sign Language …

Sign language is not new. In fact, some investigators have argued that the first human
languages were signed rather than spoken (see Armstrong, 1999; Stokoe, 2001) …

This article argues the importance of allowing deaf children to acquire sign language from
an early age. It demonstrates firstly that the critical/sensitive period hypothesis for language …

Sign Language of the Deaf: Psychological, Linguistic, and Sociological Perspectives
provides information pertinent to the psychological, educational, social, and linguistic …

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 …