Meanings of specific language impairment in English

In unvoiced plosives children with specific language impairment demonstrated more often substitutions.

Children with specific language impairment had slightly more severe articulation deficits.

Of each matched pair one child had a hearing impairment, the other a specific language impairment.

The prenatal and perinatal risk factors likely to be associated with specific language impairment (SLI) were examined in this study.

Conclusion: Articulation deficits in children with hearing impairment are slightly less than in children with specific language impairment, but follow the same pattern.

ATP2C2 is a known candidate gene for specific language impairment and is postulated to have neurobiological significance in memory-related circuits.

Background: The present retrospective evaluation study examined treatment efficacy in preschool children with severe specific language impairments.