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Specific Language Impairment: Current trends in research
Edited by Stavroula Stavrakaki
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 58] 2015
► pp. 35–56

Language disorders in children with Developmental Dyslexia

| University of Milano-Bicocca
| University of Venice
| University of Milano-Bicocca
| Centro di Psicomotricità Lodi
| University of Milano-Bicocca
While language skills are generally not assessed in children with Developmental Dyslexia (DD), it is known that 50% of them manifests some of the symptoms that we find in children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). This is confirmed in this study for Italian: 50% of the children with DD scores 1.5 SD below the mean of their peers with typical development in the production of relative clauses and wh-questions. Thus, some children with DD fail in those tasks in which also children with SLI fail. These findings point to the need of language assessment when children with DD are referred for reading problems.
Published online: 11 August 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.58.02gua
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