The landmark reference in the field, completely updated: a comprehensive treatment of a
disorder that is more prevalent than autism. Children with specific language impairment …

PURPOSE: Nonword repetition (NWR) and sentence imitation (SI) are increasingly used as
diagnostic tools for the identification of Primary Language Impairment (PLI). They may be …

Many children and adults experience significant breakdown in the use of language. The
resulting pragmatic disorders present a considerable barrier to effective communication …

The Handbook of Child Language Disorders provides an in-depth, comprehensive, and
state-of-the-art review of current research concerning the nature, assessment, and …

Specific language impairment (SLI) is one of the most common childhood disorders,
affecting 7% of children. These children experience difficulties in understanding and …

Children with specific language impairment (SLI) have associated difficulties in reading
decoding and reading comprehension. To date, few research studies have examined the …

Purpose: We propose that implicit learning, including syntactic priming, has therapeutic
promise to enhance the syntactic knowledge of children with developmental language …

Purpose: The growing interest in framing intervention approaches as either implicit or
explicit calls for a discussion of what makes intervention approaches engage each of these …

The purpose of this study was to examine within-and across-language relationships
between lexical and grammatical domains by focusing on measures of lexical diversity and …

Roger Brown considered how children come to attach a word to things and categories of
things in the world. Attaching words or names to things and categories is basic to human …