PURPOSE This study was designed to examine the early usage patterns of multiple grammatical functions of DO in children with and without specific language impairment (SLI). Children's use of this plurifunctional form is informative for evaluation of theoretical accounts of the deficit in SLI. METHOD Spontaneous uses of multiple functions of DO were analyzed in language samples from 89 chi...

Several studies indicate that school-age children with specific language impairment (SLI) have difficulties with tasks that rely on executive functions. Whether executive function deficits in children with SLI emerge during preschool age remains unclear. Our aim was to fill this gap by investigating executive function performances in two age groups of preschoolers with and without SLI. Children...

PURPOSE This study presents a meta-analysis of the difference in nonword repetition performance between children with and without specific language impairment (SLI). The authors investigated variability in the effect sizes (i.e., the magnitude of the difference between children with and without SLI) across studies and its relation to several factors: type of nonword repetition task, age of SLI ...

BACKGROUND Specific language impairment (SLI) is a disorder in which language acquisition is impaired in an otherwise normally developing child. SLI affects around 7% of children. The existence of a purely grammatical form of SLI has become extremely controversial because it points to the existence and innateness of a putative grammatical subsystem in the brain. Some researchers dispute the exi...

PURPOSE Recent research suggests that nonword repetition (NWR) and sentence repetition (SR) tasks can be used to discriminate between children with SLI and their typically developing age-matched (TDAM) and younger (TDY) peers. METHOD Fourteen Cantonese-speaking children with SLI and 30 of their TDAM and TDY peers were compared on NWR and SR tasks. NWR of IN nonwords (CV combinations attested ...

Zmiany w terminologii ujęte największych systemach klasyfikacyjnych oraz najnowsze wyniki badań dotyczących językowego funkcjonowania osób z DLD (SLI) ASD wska­zują na konieczność rewizji logopedycznej diagnozy różnicowej używanej do opisu tych zaburzeń. W prezentowanym artykule przedstawiono zarówno historyczne spojrzenia SLI i autyzm, jak współczesne ujęcia nowe terminy (DLD ASD). Wska­zano r...

Two functionally and anatomically distinct types of lateral inhibition contribute to the receptive field organization of ganglion cells in the vertebrate retina: sustained lateral inhibition (SLI), which is present during steady illumination and transient lateral inhibition (TLI), evoked by changes in illumination. We studied adaptive changes in these two lateral inhibitory mechanisms in the mu...

UNLABELLED In the context of the use of sophisticated (i.e., low-frequency) words with children with specific language impairment (SLI), the present study investigates the relationship between maternal interactive support for meaning and both conversational responsiveness and lexical development of children with SLI. Fifteen Italian-speaking children with SLI (age range: 3;4-5;6) and two groups...