Specific Language Impairment (SLI) has been explained by two broad classes of
hypotheses, which posit either a deficit specific to grammar, or a non-linguistic processing …

Children from bilingual backgrounds are sometimes overidentified with language
impairment (LI) because educators do not have appropriate developmental expectations. At …

Objectives: This study examined the language outcomes of children with mild to severe
hearing loss during the preschool years. The longitudinal design was leveraged to test …

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 …

Research at the interface of bilingual development and child language disorders has
increased greatly in the past decade. The purpose of this article is to highlight the theoretical …

Purpose Children with specific language impairment (SLI) demonstrate significant language
impairments despite normal-range hearing and nonverbal IQ. Many of these children also …

The focus of this study was the use of grammatical morphology by Spanish-speaking
preschoolers with specific language impairment (SLI). Relative to both same-age peers and …

Research suggests that children with specific language impairment (SLI) have processing
limitations; however, the mechanisms involved have not been well defined or investigated in …

Hypotheses that children and adolescents with Down syndrome show (a) a specific
expressive language impairment,(b) a" critical period" for language acquisition,(c) a" simple …

Discriminant function analysis was employed to determine if grammatical morpheme
production could be used to classify preschool-age children with specific language …