Specific language impairment: a convenient label for whom?

S Reilly, B Tomblin, J Law, C McKean… - … Journal of Language …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Background The term 'specific language impairment'(SLI), in use since the 1980s, describes
children with language impairment whose cognitive skills are within normal limits where …

Capturing the nature of the spelling errors in developmental language disorder: A scoping review

L Broc, N Joye, JE Dockrell, T Olive - … speech, and hearing services in schools, 2021 - ASHA
Purpose This scoping review aims to identify and analyze the nature of the spelling errors
produced by children with developmental language disorder (DLD) across different …

Do children classified with specific language impairment have a learning disability in writing? A meta-analysis

S Graham, M Hebert, E Fishman… - Journal of learning …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
In this meta-analysis, we examined whether children classified with specific language
impairment (SLI) experience difficulties with writing. We included studies comparing children …

Evaluating the dimensionality of first-grade written composition

YS Kim, S Al Otaiba, JS Folsom, L Greulich, C Puranik - 2014 - ASHA
Purpose This study examined dimensions of written composition by using multiple
evaluative approaches such as an adapted 6+ 1 trait scoring, syntactic complexity …

Exploring writing products in students with language impairments and autism spectrum disorders

JE Dockrell, J Ricketts, T Charman, G Lindsay - Learning and Instruction, 2014 - Elsevier
Oral language skills scaffold written text production; students with oral language difficulties
often experience writing problems. The current study examines the ways in which oral …

Exploring individual and gender differences in early writing performance

AM Adams, FR Simmons - Reading and Writing, 2019 - Springer
Boys' relatively poor progress in writing development is of particular concern in education
with both cognitive and social factors proposed as possible accounts of this discrepancy …

Language disorders are learning disabilities: Challenges on the divergent and diverse paths to language learning disability

L Sun, GP Wallach - Topics in Language Disorders, 2014 - journals.lww.com
This article takes readers along the pathway of language learning and disorders across
childhood and adolescence, highlighting the complex relationship between early …

Spelling performance in children with developmental language disorder: A meta-analysis across European languages

N Joye, L Broc, T Olive, J Dockrell - Scientific Studies of Reading, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Spelling difficulties often occur in children with developmental language disorder (DLD), the
extent and drivers of these difficulties are underspecified. Meta-analyses were conducted to …

The effect of language specific factors on early written composition: The role of spelling, oral language and text generation skills in a shallow orthography

B Arfé, JE Dockrell, B De Bernardi - Reading and Writing, 2016 - Springer
Spelling skills have been identified as one of the major barriers to written text production in
young English writers. By contrast oral language skills and text generation have been found …

Children with speech language and communication needs in England: Challenges for practice

JE Dockrell, P Howell, D Leung, AJB Fugard - Frontiers in education, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Teachers and speech and language therapists (SLTs) share concern about children's
speech, language, and communication needs (SLCNs) but they have different foci because …