Children with Specific Language Impairment Second Edition

<b>The landmark reference in the field completely updated: a comprehensive treatment of a disorder that is more prevalent than autism.</b><p>Children with specific language impairment (SLI) show a significant deficit in spoken language that cannot be attributed to neurological damage hearing impairment or intellectual disability. More prevalent than autism and at least as prevalent as dyslexia SLI affects approximately seven percent of all children; it is longstanding with adverse effects on academic social and (eventually) economic standing. The first edition of this work established <i>Children with Specific Language Impairment</i> as the landmark reference on this condition considering not only the disorder's history possible origins and treatment but also what SLI might tell us about language organization and development in general. This second edition offers a complete update of the earlier volume.</p><p>Much of the second edition is completely new reflecting findings and interpretations based on the hundreds of studies that have appeared since the publication of the first edition in 1997. Topics include linguistic details (descriptive and theoretical) word and sentence processing findings genetics neurobiology treatment and comparisons to such conditions as autism spectrum disorders ADHD and dyslexia. The book covers SLI in children who speak a wide range of languages and although the emphasis is on children it also includes studies of adults who were diagnosed with SLI as children or are the parents of children with SLI.</p><p>Written by a leading scholar in the field <i>Children with Specific Language Impairment</i> offers the most comprehensive balanced and unified treatment of SLI available.</p>