SLI Subgroups: Interaction Between Discourse Constraints and Morphosyntactic Deficits

1996 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 655-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia L. Evans
Keyword(s):  
Receptive Language ◽  
Language Impairments ◽  
Language Abilities ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Syntactic Skills ◽  
Grammatical Errors ◽  
Specific Language Impairments ◽  
The Impact ◽  
A Performance

A performance-based model was employed to investigate the impact of discourse demands on the pattern of morphosyntactic deficits exhibited by children with Specific Language Impairments (SLI). The pattern of grammatical errors varied with respect to discourse demands for children with good receptive language abilities but remained stable and independent of changes in discourse demands for children with both expressive and receptive deficits. These findings suggest distinct deficit profiles for subgroups of children with SLI differing in receptive language abilities that are not evident when syntactic skills are investigated outside the context of ongoing spontaneous discourse.

scholarly journals Textism Use and Language Ability in Children

2015 ◽  
pp. 770-778
Author(s):  
Sam Waldron ◽  
Clare Wood
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Language Impairments ◽  
Language Ability ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Language Abilities ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Coding Schemes ◽  
Specific Language Impairments ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship

Textism use (or textese) refers to the way in which individuals write in shorthand on mobile devices in order to save space or time. Thurlow (2003) devised one of the first coding schemes for textisms, and textism use has since been hotly debated by the media (Crystal, 2008). Plester et al. (2008; 2009) and Wood et al. (2011; 2014) have since investigated the relationship that texting has with children's language abilities, and found no evidence of negative effects. Further research has been conducted into the effects of texting on readers of differing abilities (Coe & Oakhill, 2011) and found that it is better readers who tend to use more textisms. Further research is discussed in relation to children with reading difficulties such as specific language impairments (Durkin et al, 2011) and dyslexia (Veater et al, 2011).

scholarly journals Awareness of Rhythm Patterns in Speech and Music in Children with Specific Language Impairments

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Cumming ◽  
Angela Wilson ◽  
Victoria Leong ◽  
Lincoln J. Colling ◽  
Usha Goswami
Keyword(s):  
Language Impairments ◽  
Specific Language ◽  
Specific Language Impairments
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