CGSC376 Lecture 14: CGSC 376 14
30 Jan 2019
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Language impairment in the absence of intellectual, hearing or other disorders. Both receptive and expressive (middle, hs and adulthood. Difficulties in coming up with the right words at the right time. Considerable difficulty with grammatical production and comprehension. Continues through school age, especially use of verbs (morphemes for tense, number) but other word categories as well. Shorter mlu than age mates and intellectual peers. Sometimes articulation and phonological problems also arise. Whether a biological or genetic predisposition to sli is eventually manifested as a disorder is linked to a child"s exposure to additional risk factors and life experiences. Inconsistent skills across different domains, e. g. nonverbal strengths. Sli- all or some of the characteristics in combination to each individual. Diagnosed after struggling with reading, writing, math, curriculum. Run in families (ask about family history) A large percentage have history of speech/language impairment in toddler/ preschool years. Dyslexia is a language disorder specific to language in print form.
