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Specificity of Specific Language Impairment

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 2009
In children with specific language impairment (SLI) their problems are supposed to be specifically restricted to language. However, both on a theoretical basis as well as on a practical basis it is often difficult to make a sharp distinction between specific and nonspecific language disorders. In a three-step study we found in the first place that in a
Goorhuis-Brouwer, SM, Wijnberg-Williams, B.J.   +1 more
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Language impairment in cerebellar ataxia

Movement Disorders, 2014
ABSTRACTBackgroundSeveral studies have suggested that language impairment can be observed in patients with cerebellar pathology. The aim of this study was to investigate language performance in patients with spinocerebellar ataxia type 6 (SCA6).MethodsWe assessed speech and language in 29 SCA6 patients with standardized linquistic tests and correlated ...
van Gaalen, J., van Gaalen, J., de Swart, B.J., de Swart, B.J., Oostveen, J.M., Knuijt, S., Knuijt, S., van de Warrenburg, B.P.C., Kremer, H.P.H.   +8 more
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Early Language Delay and Specific Language Impairment

Developmental Disabilities Research Reviews, 2011
Early language delay (ELD) is a warning sign that may presage the presence of a later language impairment (LI). In order to allow more targeted identification and earlier intervention for LI, better diagnostic measures for toddlers are needed. Development of accurate predictive/diagnostic models requires consideration of a set of complex interrelated ...
Klee, T, Moyle, J, Stokes, SF
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Mothers' Discourse Adjustments to Language-Impaired and Non-Language-Impaired Children

Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, 1983
Mothers' discourse adjustments addressed to language-impaired children and non-language-impaired children were studied. Mother-child dyads with 14 language-impaired children and 14 MLU-matched non-language-impaired children served as subjects. The mothers' discourse was compared on the following measures: meaning illocutions, cohesion illocutions, and ...
G, Conti-Ramsden, S, Friel-Patti
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Developmental language learning impairments

Development and Psychopathology, 2002
Developmental language learning impairments (LLI) are one of the most prevalent of all developmental disabilities, can occur in children for a wide variety of reasons, and have been shown to co-occur frequently with other developmental social, emotional and behavioral disorders, as well as with academic achievement problems.
Paula, Tallal, April A, Benasich
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Subgroups of developmental language impairment

Brain and Language, 1980
Nineteen children with developmental language impairments were given tests which measured syntactic and phonological skills in both comprehension and production conditions, semantic ability, syllable sequencing, and digit span. The results of discriminant function analysis show that the children could be divided into two groups.
B, Wolfus, M, Moscovitch, M, Kinsbourne
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Language Impairment and Psychiatric Comorbidities

Pediatric Clinics of North America, 2007
This article provides an overview of language impairment and its associated conditions and discusses the interactive relationship between language and other domains of development, using the framework of developmental psychopathology. This framework emphasizes the mutually influential transactions approach between developmental domains within ...
Nancie, Im-Bolter, Nancy J, Cohen
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Speed of Language Comprehension is Impaired in ADHD

Journal of Attention Disorders, 2008
Objective: Children with ADHD have an increased risk of poor academic performance. It is important to identify cognitive processes that may be related to this academic failure. In Western schooling systems, especially language processing skills may be of relevance.
Wassenberg, R., Hendriksen, J.G., Hurks, P.P.M., Feron, F.J., Vles, J.S.H., Jolles, J.   +5 more
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Pragmatics in pre‐schoolers with language impairments

International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2010
Background: Pragmatic assessment methods are very diverse and differ in informant type. Some rely on parents, others on teachers/professionals and some directly test pragmatic abilities in the children themselves. A widely used pragmatic parent questionnaire is the Children's Communication Checklist—2 (CCC‐2). However, it is not known how scores on the
Geurts, H., Embrechts, M.
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Specific Language Impairments and Behavioural Problems

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 1999
The behavioural functioning of 56 children with a specific language impairment (SLI), aged 8, 10, and 12 years, was examined by using the Child Behaviour Checklist. Parents as well as teachers filled in the questionnaire. The data shows that 48% of the children with SLI were considered to have behavioural problems either at home or in school.
Coster, F.W., Goorhuis-Brouwer, S.M., Nakken, H., Lutje Spelberg, H.C.   +3 more
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