The landmark reference in the field, completely updated: a comprehensive treatment of a
disorder that is more prevalent than autism. Children with specific language impairment …

Developmental language disorder (DLD) is one of the most common neurodevelopmental
disorders. The influences of DLD on language development have been delineated in detail …

Purpose Recent research suggests that nonword repetition (NWR) and sentence repetition
(SR) tasks can be used to discriminate between children with SLI and their typically …

Background During grammatical treatment of children with developmental language
disorder (DLD), it is natural for therapists to focus on the grammatical details of the target …

Purpose Standardized tests are one of the primary assessment tools used by speech-
language pathologists (SLPs) to diagnose child language impairment. Numerous child …

Roger Brown considered how children come to attach a word to things and categories of
things in the world. Attaching words or names to things and categories is basic to human …

From the first moment of life, language development occurs in the context of social activities.
This book emphasises how language development interacts with social and cognitive …

Purpose To evaluate the discriminant accuracy of a grammatical measure for the
identification of language impairment (LI) in Latino English-speaking children. Specifically …

While previous research has shown that processing instruction (PI) can more effectively
facilitate the acquisition of target structures than traditional drill practice, the processing …

Twenty-five monolingual (L1) children with specific language impairment (SLI), 32
sequential bilingual (L2) children, and 29 L1 controls completed the Test of Active & Passive …