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November 23, 2020

Panel Discussion on Specific Language Impairment

This panel discussion brings together researchers to consider whether specific language impairment and developmental language disorder should be separate or overlapping labels, reflecting on how terminology shapes advocacy.

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Reading Development and Reading Difficulties in Children with Specific Language Impairment

This presentation explores whether a tiered screening and monitoring approach used for reading difficulties could also help identify children with language impairment, though the tools this would require remain unclear.

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Clinical Intersections Among Specific Language Impairment, Social Pragmatic Communication Disorder, and Attention-Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder

This presentation examines overlapping diagnostic criteria among language impairment, attention-deficit disorder, and social communication disorder, where removing certain scale items unexpectedly improved rather than weakened diagnostic accuracy.

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Repeated Retrieval Facilitates Word Learning and Recall in Children With Specific Language Impairment

This presentation examines word learning strategies in children with specific language impairment, showing that spaced retrieval outperforms repeated study despite far fewer retrieval attempts.

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Sentence Diversity in Toddlers At-Risk for Specific Language Impairment

This presentation examines how toddlers at risk for language impairment struggle to produce diverse sentence subjects, with third-person subjects emerging notably later than expected.

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What Studies of Twins Tell Us About Specific Language Impairment in Children: Twinning Effects & Heritability at 2, 4, 6, and 16 Years of Age

This presentation follows twins from ages 2 to 16 to study language impairment inheritance, highlighting an unexpected gap in early language between identical and fraternal twins.

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