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Direct linkDispaldro, Marco; Leonard, Laurence B.; Deevy, Patricia – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2013
Background: In many languages a weakness in non-word repetition serves as a useful clinical marker of specific language impairment (SLI) in children. However, recent work in Italian has shown that the repetition of real words may also have clinical utility. For young typically developing Italian children, real word repetition is more predictive of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Italian, Language Impairments, Children
Bortolini, Umberta; Arfe, Barbara; Caselli, Cristina M.; Degasperi, Luisa; Deevy, Patricia; Leonard, Laurence B. – International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders, 2006
Background: The discovery of clinical markers for specific language impairment (SLI) in children can assist in the accurate identification of children with this disorder, and in a description of the disorder's phenotype for genetic study. One challenge to this type of research is the fact that languages vary in the most salient symptoms of SLI.…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Clinical Diagnosis, Italian, Speech Language Pathology
Peer reviewedLeonard, Laurence B.; Bortolini, Umberta – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1998
Twenty-five Italian-speaking children (ages 4 to 7) with specific language impairments were compared to younger control children in their use of auxiliary verbs, pronominal clitics, infinitives, present-tense verbal inflections, and articles. Differences favoring the control children were found for those morphemes that required the production of…
Descriptors: Articulation Impairments, Children, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries
