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 …

Language disorders are highly heritable and are influenced by complex interactions
between genetic and environmental factors. Despite more than twenty years of research, we …

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 …

Purpose Understanding the long-term outcomes of developmental language difficulties is
key to knowing what significance to attach to them. To date, most prognostic studies have …

Background Children with language impairment (LI) show heterogeneity in development.
We tracked children from pre‐school to middle childhood to characterize three …

Despite the importance of learning abilities and disabilities in education and child
development, little is known about their genetic and environmental origins in the early …

The Handbook of Child Language Disorders provides an in-depth, comprehensive, and
state-of-the-art review of current research concerning the nature, assessment, and …

Purpose Identifying children with primary or specific language impairment (LI) in languages
other than English continues to present a diagnostic challenge. This study examined the …

The present study is the first long‐term longitudinal examination of the etiology of individual
differences in language from early childhood through to adolescence. We applied a …

Heritability estimates for specific language impairment (SLI) have been inconsistent. Four
twin studies reported heritability of 0.5 or more, but a recent report from the Twins Early …