In this study 160 children, aged 11 years with a definite history of specific language impairment (SLI), completed four tasks that could be potential positive psycholinguistic markers for this impairment: a third person singular task, a past tense task, a nonword repetition task, and a sentence repetition task. This allowed examination of more than one type of marker simultaneously, facilitatin...

This paper discusses neuropsychological and neurolinguistic aspects of specific language impairment (SLI), classified among the developmental speech disorders. SLI constitutes one of the more important manifestations of irregularities in the development process and is among the earliest ob served in children. SLI results from the uneven development of linguistic processes – phonological, semant...

Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is a disorder characterised by slow, abnormal language development. Most children with this disorder do not present any other cognitive or neurological deficits. There are many different pathological developmental profiles and switches from one profile to another often occur. An alternative would be to consider SLI as a generic name covering three developmenta...

The term “Specific Language Impairment” (SLI) refers to disturbances in acquiring the skills needed for language, especially the syntactic and morphological components, in children who are not diagnosed with structural anomalies of the brain, hearing impairments, or significant general learning impairments, and who have not been deprived of contact with other people (Rapin 1996). Several import...

Specific language impairment (SLI) is diagnosed when a child's language development is deficient for no obvious reason. For many years, there was a tendency to assume that SLI was caused by factors such as poor parenting, subtle brain damage around the time of birth, or transient hearing loss. Subsequently it became clear that these factors were far less important than genes in determining risk...

background: identification of children with specific language impairment (sli) has been viewed as both necessity and challenge. investigators and clinicians use different tests and measures for this purpose. some of these tests/measures have good psychometric properties, but it is not sufficient for diagnostic purposes. a diagnostic procedure can be used for identification a specific population...