Specific language impairment: speech perception in relation to noise

Abstract Background Children with specific language impairment (SLI) fail to develop age-appropriate despite being apparently normal in other respects. Those children usually have abnormal speech perception noise. This work is designed investigate background noise those children. It included two groups of children: control group (15 typical development) and study (25 diagnosed SLI). All were submitted intelligence scale, assessment, full audiological evaluation, Arabic Pediatric Speech Intelligibility test (PSI). Results showed no statically significant difference total verbal IQ, while non-verbal IQ was significantly lower the group. As regard results audiometry, had better SRT higher WD% than Expressive, receptive, scores increased PSI increasing SNR from 0 +8dB both groups. The comparison between a score at different S/N recording conditions. Conclusions SLI difficulty when compared typically developed more apparent presence