OBJECTIVE To investigate the relationship between child care by domestic helper and specific language impairment (SLI). DESIGN Retrospective case-control study. SETTING A Child Assessment Center in Hong Kong that receives referrals from primary and secondary care settings. PARTICIPANTS We reviewed medical records of all new referrals younger than 5 years during a 4-year period (1999-2003)...

BACKGROUND Previous research suggests that speakers are especially likely to produce manual communicative gestures when they have relative ease in thinking about the spatial elements of what they are describing, paired with relative difficulty organizing those elements into appropriate spoken language. Children with specific language impairment (SLI) exhibit poor expressive language abilities t...

BACKGROUND Children with specific language impairment (SLI) and dyslexia are known to have impairments in various aspects of phonology, which have been claimed to cause their language and literacy impairments. However, 'phonology' encompasses a wide range of skills, and little is known about whether these phonological impairments extend to prosody. AIMS To investigate certain prosodic abiliti...

Introduction Children with specific language impairment (SLI) have poorer ability and difficulties understanding complex sentences even though they no clear sensory, motor, or neurological abnormalities. Nevertheless, may exhibit auditory processing deficits. Hence the present study was conducted to provide an overview of endogenous evoked potentials in this population, which help early identif...

This pilot study investigated the effects of an early numeracy program, RightStart Mathematics (RS), on Finnish kindergartners with specific language impairment (SLI). The study applied a pre-test-instruction-post-test design. The children with SLI (n=9, Mage=82.11 months) received RS instruction two to three times a week for 40 min over seven months, which replaced their business-as-usual math...

This study used neuroimaging and behavioral techniques to examine the claim that processing capacity limitations underlie specific language impairment (SLI). Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to investigate verbal working memory in adolescents with SLI and normal language (NL) controls. The experimental task involved a modified listening span measure that included sentence e...

Traditionally, autism and specific language impairment (SLI) are regarded as distinct disorders, with differential diagnosis hinging on two features. First, in SLI one sees isolated language impairments in the context of otherwise normal development, whereas in autism a triad of impairments is seen, affecting communication, social interaction and behavioural repertoire. Second, there are differ...

INTRODUCTION It is crucial to understand the complex processing of acoustic stimuli along the auditory pathway; comprehension of this complex processing can facilitate our understanding of the processes that underlie normal and altered human communication. AIM To investigate the performance and lateralization effects on auditory processing assessment in children with specific language impairm...

We used event-related potentials (ERPs) to compare auditory word recognition in children with specific language impairment (SLI group; N=14) to a group of typically developing children (TD group; N=14). Subjects were presented with pictures of items and heard auditory words that either matched or mismatched the pictures. Mismatches overlapped expected words in word-onset (cohort mismatches; see...