PURPOSE To investigate the usefulness of 3 tasks known to be effective diagnostic clinical markers of specific language impairment (SLI) in children: (a) nonword repetition, (b) sentence repetition, and (c) grammaticality judgments of finiteness marking. METHOD Two groups of young adults, 13 with SLI and 18 with typical language, completed 3 experimental tasks: (a) nonword repetition, (b) sen...

In the light of emerging suggestions that language and motor deŽ cits may co-occur, the literature on speciŽ c language impairment (SLI) was reviewed to investigate the prevalence of co-morbidity between SLI and poor limb motor skill in children diagnosed with language impairments. An extensive literature search was undertaken and the subsequent Ž ndings evaluated with particular reference to i...

PURPOSE In this study, the authors assessed the hypothesis of a limitation in attentional allocation capacity as underlying poor sentence comprehension in children with specific language impairment (SLI). METHOD Fifteen children with SLI, 15 age-matched controls, and 15 grammar-matched controls participated in the study. Sixty sentences were presented in isolation, and 60 sentences were prese...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether or not Japanese children with specific language impairment (henceforth; SLI) would in fact experience difficulty with grammatical case-marking. The participants were 10 Japanese children with SLI, aged 7;7 to 11;4, and 25 Japanese children with typical language development (henceforth; TLD), aged 8;11 to 9;11. In this study, a sentence comple...

INTRODUCTION Recent research on the language of children of SLI shows a marked delay in their acquisition of grammatical morphemes, especially those associated with the verbal system (e.g., Rice and Oetting, 1993; Rice, Wexler and Cleaver, 1996). In English, the nominal system is morphologically poorer than the verbal system, which may account for the discrepancy observed in the two systems of ...

Early detection and accurate characterization of disease outbreaks are important tasks of public health. Infectious diseases that present symptomatically like influenza (SLI), including influenza itself, constitute an important class of diseases that are monitored by public-health epidemiologists. Monitoring emergency department (ED) visits for presentations of SLI could provide an early indica...

Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is a developmental language disorder in which affected individuals fail to acquire language according to age-expected levels, in spite of typical development in other areas; they have normal non-verbal intelligence and socio-emotional development, no presence of motor speech disorders and no hearing difficulty or evident neurological damage. SLI is present fro...

There has been a long-standing interest in the relationship between specific language impairment (SLI) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In the last decade Tager-Flusberg and colleagues have proposed that this relationship consists of a partial overlap between the two. Therefore, among children with ASD there exists a subgroup who have SLI and ASD which has been called 'ALI'. Tager-Flusberg's...

A link between developmental language disorders and atypical cerebral lateralization has been postulated since the 1920s, but evidence has been indirect and inconsistent. The current study investigated this proposal using functional transcranial Doppler ultrasonography (fTCD), which assesses blood flow through the middle cerebral arteries serving the left and right cerebral hemispheres. A group...

BACKGROUND Sustained lung inflations (SLI) during neonatal resuscitation may promote alveolar recruitment in preterm infants. While most of the studies focus on respiratory outcome, the impact of SLI on the brain hasn't been investigated yet. OBJECTIVE Do SLI affect cerebral blood volume (CBV) in preterm infants? METHODS Preterm infants of gestation 28 weeks 0 days to 33 weeks 6 days with r...