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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"specific language impairment"”.
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Nonverbal Cognitive Assessment in Specific Language Impairment: A Meta-Analysis
… nonverbal cognitive performance of children with specific language impairment (SLI) and their typically developing (TD) peers. In addition, variability in effect sizes across studies and its relation to the nonverbal cognitive test used, the cut-off criterion employed, participants’ age, and their …
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Specific Language Impairment and Executive Function: Parent and Teacher Ratings of Behavior
<p><em>Purpose</em>: Children with specific language impairment (SLI) demonstrate difficulty on many performance-based measures of executive function, although their executive performance on ratings of behavior is not well understood. The current investigation used the <em>Behavior Rating Inventory …
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Recognition of Facial Expressions of Six Emotions by Children with Specific Language Impairment
… years, research has shown that children with language impairment often have increased social difficulties. The purpose of this study was to take a closer look at the relationship between language ability and emotion understanding by examining the recognition of facial expressions in children …
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Auditory Temporal Processing in Children with Specific Language Impairment Compared to Same-Age Controls
It has been proposed that impaired language development in children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) originates from immature auditory temporal integration (ATI), but results are inconsistent. We compared electroencephalographic data from 25 children with SLI aged 6-11 years to 25 typically …
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Experiences of integration from language units to mainstream school for children with specific language impairment
… was to examine the experiences of children with Specific Language Impairment who had integrated from a Language Unit to mainstream school. The aim of the study was to explore the development of the children in the areas of language, academic ability, and psychosocial performance both during and …
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Neurophysiological bases of frequency discrimination in children with Auditory Processing Disorder or Specific Language Impairment
… with Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) or Specific Language Impairment (SLI) could discriminate three different frequency changes behaviorally and electrophysiologically. Behavioral frequency discrimination and event-related potentials were examined using a 1000Hz pure tone base frequency. …
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A Multiple Perspective Study of Specific Language Impairment and Verbal Communication: Exploring Perceptions of Collaborative Learning
… teacher will encounter students with speech or language difficulties at some point in their teaching career. As children with disabilities and learning exceptionalities spend more time in inclusive classrooms, it is necessary for general education teachers to expand and modify their …
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Event Related Potentials of Syntactic Language Processing in Two Children with Specific Language Impairment: A Case Study
… activity of two children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and two aged-matched peers while listening to syntactically correct sentences versus syntactically incorrect sentences. The study specifically analyzed the N400 and P600 components. The N400 component is a negative …
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Whole-exome sequencing variant prioritization in individuals with tense and agreement marking deficit— a clinical marker of specific language impairment
Specific language impairment (SLI) has been studied at the genetic level for over 25 years, with varied assessments of language ability defining the SLI phenotype across studies. In the current study, the SLI phenotype is defined by performance on a sensitive and specific measure of grammar …
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Analysis of the lived experiences of young adults with specific language impairment and/or pragmatic language impairment to inform counselling psychology practice
… in the general population are affected by Specific Language Impairment and/or Pragmatic Language Impairment with numerous cases undiagnosed. It is known that difficulty in communication affects psychosocial functioning and is likely to be a source of mental distress but the data on people’s …
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Comparing the oral language abilities of children with autism spectrum disorder and specific language impairment using the Comprehensive Assessment of Spoken Language (CASL)
… to be a shift of focus away from the expressive language difficulties of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) to their social communication difficulties only. A significant body of research, on the other hand, has revealed that many children with ASD present with language impairment …
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Dosage, Severity, Frequency, and Chronicity Effects of Adversity Exposure on Children's Grammar Abilities
… below age-expectations on norm-referenced language assessments, but it is unknown whether the risk is higher for specific language impairment. Previous research has not included samples with sufficient exclusionary criteria, assessments with sufficient diagnostic accuracy, nor comprehensive …
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Thinking outloud: the problem-solving language of preschoolers with and without language impairment
… and addressee (private vs. social). The language of six children with specific language impairment was compared to that of six age-matched, and six language-matched peers. Correlations between dependency, impulsivity and efficiency and language use were also investigated. 39% of the …
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An improved audiometer for specific language impaired children
… certain frequencies of sound is called a hearing impairment. Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is a very common type of impairment found in many children. Generally, children with SLI are often diagnosed with developmental language disorder and as they grew older they may find difficulty in …
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Creating an SLI performance profile with load
… cognitive factors that may contribute to Specific Language Impairment (SLI). This study attempted to simulate a performance profile of SLI in typically developing children within a grammaticality judgment task, featuring structures historically difficult (third person singular –S and …
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The Type and Frequency of Morphosyntax Errors in Children's Narratives.
… child represented one of four groups: Typical Language, Specific Language Impairment, Nonspecific Language Impairment, and Low Nonverbal IQ. Three MANOVA's and post-hoc comparisons were used to test three predictions: (1) children will have more difficulty with verb than noun morphology; (2) …
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Lasten ja nuorten dysleksian ja kielellisen erityisvaikeuden kuntoutus musiikillisin keinoin
… music ja musical intervention avulla.Termi specific language impairment jätettiin hakulausekkeen ulkopuolelle, koska se vei fokuksen pois pääasiasta, dysleksiasta. Aineistoa haettiin Scopus-, Pubmed- ja Web of Science-tietokannoista ja myös Google Scholar-hakukoneen avulla. Lopullinen …
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Private Speech and Inner Speech in Typical and Atypical Development
… children who show risk factors for SDS impairment—those with autism and those with specific language impairment. The research reported in Chapter 5 tests an important tenet of neoVygotskian theory—that the development of SDS development is domain-general—by looking at cross-task …
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Mothers' Stories: Influences on Vocabulary and Syntax of African American Children With and Without Language Impairment
… stories told to their children with and without specific language impairment (SLI). It is also concerned with children's gains in vocabulary and syntactic knowledge as a result of listening to these parental stories. The purposes of the study are: (1) to gain an understanding of African American …
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