Understanding the Language Difficulties of Children With Specific Language Impairments
2002 ◽
Vol 11
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pp. 77-91
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Many children with specific language impairment (SLI) demonstrate deficits in both verbal working memory (VWM) and language. Among child language researchers, the debate continues whether these two deficits are related. In this article, I take the position that there is indeed a connection between SLI and VWM. I review evidence suggesting that the lexical/morphological learning and sentence comprehension problems of many of these children are associated with deficient VWM abilities. Evidence is also reviewed for the possibility that deficient VWM provides a clinical marker of SLI. I end by offering various assessment and intervention techniques that may prove useful in SLI.
2000 ◽
Vol 21
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pp. 117-148
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2014 ◽
Vol 35
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pp. 3534-3542
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1999 ◽
Vol 42
(5)
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pp. 1249-1260
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2009 ◽
Vol 52
(2)
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pp. 269-288
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2010 ◽
Vol 41
(4)
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pp. 521-530
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2006 ◽
Vol 29
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pp. 267-269
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2010 ◽
Vol 53
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pp. 1656-1672
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2009 ◽
Vol 11
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pp. 220-233
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2013 ◽
Vol 3
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