Poor readers are known to do consistently worsethan their normal reading peers on tasks
ofphonological processing. They are characterizedby their difficulties in printed …

There is much controversy about the extent to which auditory processing deficits are
important in the genesis of language disorders, particularly specific language impairment …

This article compared the language profiles of adolescents with Down syndrome (DS) and
children with specific language impairment matched for nonverbal cognitive ability, and …

The relation between individual neurons and neuronal networks in performing brain
functions is one of the central questions in modern neuroscience. Most of the current …

In general terms, specific language impairment (SLI) is easy to define: It is diagnosed when
a child fails to make normal progress in language learning for no obvious reason. In …

The auditory temporal deficit hypothesis predicts that children with specific reading disability
(RD) will exhibit a deficit in the perception of auditory temporal cues in nonspeech stimuli …

The mappings from grapheme to phoneme are much less consistent in English than they are
for most other languages. Therefore, the differences found between English-speaking …

The heterogeneity of specific language impairment (SLI) in children is a major issue in
current research on the etiology of the disorder. Are these studies looking at one or many …

The acquisition of speech perception and consequent expression of language represent
fundamental aspects of human functioning. Yet roughly 7% to 8% of children who are …

This chapter reviews the research pertaining to various accounts of the relationship between
cognition and language learning in children with specific language impairment (SLI). We …