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

Children with specific language impairment (SLI) have a significant and longstanding deficit
in spoken language ability that adversely affects their social and academic well‐being …

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 …

Second language learners often produce language forms resembling those of children with
Specific Language Impairment (SLI). At present, professionals working in language …

Developmental dyslexia, reading disability, and reading impairment all refer to unexpected
and unexplained poor performance in reading. Expected levels of reading performance can …

Comprehension of relative clauses was assessed in 10 Hebrew-speaking school-age
children with syntactic SLI and in two groups of younger children with normal language …

Purpose This study investigated the association of 2 mechanisms of working memory
(phonological short-term memory [PSTM], attentional resource capacity/allocation) with the …

Purpose This study compared performance of children on 2 tests of nonword repetition to
investigate the factors that may contribute to the well-documented nonword repetition deficit …

This article addresses the autonomy hypothesis of vocabulary and grammar and
bootstrapping mechanisms in early language development. Two birth cohorts of 1,505 and …

Background There is no agreed terminology for describing childhood language problems. In
this special issue Reilly et al. and Bishop review the history of the most widely used …