Specific Language Impairment (SLI)
•This is a specific learning difficulty
•Children’s understanding and use of spoken language is not on a par with their nonverbal (visual and practical) skills
•It may be a receptive (understanding) and/or expressive (spoken) language difficulty
•Vocabulary is limited and it is hard to make sentences
•There are often word finding difficulties with SLI and verbal dyspraxia
•There may be phonological processing problems and speech (articulation) difficulties
•Persisting speech difficulties up to a school age level indicate the child will have a high risk of literacy difficulties
•There may be difficulties with the social use of language (pragmatics) without being on the Autistic spectrum
•Approximately 6% of pre schoolers have SLI
•3% of children have SLI at age 5 that persists into school age
•More boys than girls are affected, as with dyslexia and dyspraxia
•This is a specific learning difficulty
•Children’s understanding and use of spoken language is not on a par with their nonverbal (visual and practical) skills
•It may be a receptive (understanding) and/or expressive (spoken) language difficulty
•Vocabulary is limited and it is hard to make sentences
•There are often word finding difficulties with SLI and verbal dyspraxia
•There may be phonological processing problems and speech (articulation) difficulties
•Persisting speech difficulties up to a school age level indicate the child will have a high risk of literacy difficulties
•There may be difficulties with the social use of language (pragmatics) without being on the Autistic spectrum
•Approximately 6% of pre schoolers have SLI
•3% of children have SLI at age 5 that persists into school age
•More boys than girls are affected, as with dyslexia and dyspraxia