Semantic Abilities in Children With Pragmatic Language Impairment: The Case of Picture Naming Skills

Semantic abilities in children with pragmatic language impairment: the case of picture naming skills.

PURPOSE The semantic abilities of children with pragmatic language impairment (PLI) are subject to debate. The authors investigated picture naming and definition skills in 5-year-olds with PLI in comparison to typically developing children. METHOD 84 children with PLI and 80 age-matched typically developing children completed receptive vocabulary, picture naming, and definition tasks. RESUL...

Picture Naming in Children With and Without Specific Language Impairment: An Error Analysis Study

Objectives: The lexical-level deficits are one of the hallmark limitations observed in early school-age children with specific language impairment. These problems are the predictors of reading problems and poor performance at school. Most studies in Persian-speaker children with specific language impairment have focused on syntax and morphology and the naming errors profile of these children ar...

Semantic representation and naming in children with specific language impairment.

When 16 children with SLI (mean age = 6;2) and 16 normally developing age-mates named age-appropriate objects, the SLI cohort made more naming errors. For both cohorts, semantic misnaming and indeterminate responses were the predominant error types. The contribution of limited semantic representation to these naming errors was explored. Each participant drew and defined each item from his or he...

Referring expressions and structural language abilities in children with specific language impairment: A pragmatic tolerance account.

Specific language impairment (SLI) has traditionally been characterized as a deficit of structural language (specifically grammar), with relative strengths in pragmatics. In this study, comprehensive assessment of production, comprehension, and metalinguistic judgment of referring expressions revealed that children with SLI have weaknesses in both structural and pragmatic language skills relati...

The Gestural Abilities of Children with Specific Language Impairment