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 …

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 …

Specific language impairment (SLI) is traditionally defined as a deficit in language
acquisition which occurs in the absence of any cognitive, social or neurological difficulty …

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 …

Over five decades of inquiry into signed languages have allowed language and
communication researchers to expand what is known about structural variation and human …

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 …

The recent recognition of sign languages as legitimate human languages has opened up
new and unique ways for both theoretical and applied psycholinguistics and language …

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 …

The 10 things you should know about sign languages are the following:(1) Sign languages
have phonology and poetry.(2) Sign languages vary in their linguistic structure and family …