This study explored the notion that the extent to which language-impaired children can
become bilingual depends on the type of language impairment. Single-case studies were …

Substantial evidence points to the presence of subtle weaknesses in the nonlinguistic
cognitive processing skills of children with primary (or specific) language impairment (PLI). It …

A large body of literature suggests that bilingualism strongly influences attentional
processes among a variety of age groups. Increasing studies, however, indicate that culture …

Previous studies have shown that bilinguals have greater control over attentional resources
than monolinguals in nonverbal tasks, perhaps reflecting domain-general enhancements of …

Background Bilingual children and children diagnosed with developmental language
disorder (DLD) are characterized by reduced lexical‐retrieval abilities. Few studies …

Purpose The present study was designed to investigate the performance of preschool
children with specific language impairment (SLI) and their typically developing (TD) peers …

The performance of 8-to 13-year-old monolingual English-speaking children with language
impairment (LI) on seven nonlinguistic tasks was compared with two groups of typically …

Purpose Information-processing limitations have been associated with language problems
in children with specific language impairment (SLI). These processing limitations may be …

Abstract Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) have severe language difficulties
without showing hearing impairments, cognitive deficits, neurological damage or socio …

It is well established that monolingual preschoolers' oral language development (vocabulary
and oral comprehension) contributes to their later reading abilities; however, less is known …