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Specific Language Impairment: Current trends in research
Edited by Stavroula Stavrakaki
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 58] 2015
► pp. 113–124

Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is not specific enough: Sub-types of SLI and their implications for the theory of the disorder

There is an ongoing debate in the SLI field which test should be used as the gold standard test and which markers are the best for the diagnosis of SLI. In the current paper an approach of defining subtypes of SLI based on linguistic domains is suggested. This approach is supported by findings of dissociation between language domains within the group of SLI and by similar dissociations in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. This approach is suggested as a better method for clinicians seeking assessment tools and for researchers investigating the origin of the deficit.

Published online: 11 August 2015
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.58.05nov
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