Specific Language Impairment (SLI) has been explained by two broad classes of
hypotheses, which posit either a deficit specific to grammar, or a non-linguistic processing …

Specific language-impairment (SLI) is a disorder of language acquisition in children who
otherwise appear to be normally developing. Controversy surrounds whether SLI results …

This study tested the hypothesis that early language experience facilitates the development
of language-specific perceptual weighting strategies believed to be critical for accessing …

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 …

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 …

Seventy-seven children between the ages of 6 and 10 years, with severe mixed receptive-
expressive specific language impairment (SLI), participated in a randomized controlled trial …

Auditory perceptual learning has been proposed as effective for remediating impaired
language and for enhancing normal language development. We examined the effect of …

Children learn most new words without direct teaching. Evidence for this comes primarily
from two sources. First, between the ages of 18 months and 18 years, children learn an …

We used neurophysiological and behavioral measures to examine whether children with
specific language impairment (SLI) have deficits in automatic processing of brief …

It has been proposed that specific language impairment (SLI) is caused by an impairment of
auditory processing, but it is unclear whether this problem affects temporal processing …