Comorbid motor deficits in a clinical sample of children with specific language impairment
| Autor: | Jennifer C.S. Finlay, Martin McPhillips |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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medicine.medical_specialty media_common.quotation_subject Sample (statistics) Comorbidity Specific language impairment Audiology Language Development behavioral disciplines and activities Motor function Literacy Developmental psychology Nonverbal communication Child Development Risk Factors Intervention (counseling) Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans Language Development Disorders Child Motor skill media_common Language Tests medicine.disease Motor Skills Disorders Clinical Psychology Reading Clinical diagnosis Female Psychology Child Language |
| Zdroj: | Research in Developmental Disabilities. 34:2533-2542 |
| ISSN: | 0891-4222 |
| Popis: | The aim of the present study was to compare the motor function of a clinical sample of children with specific language impairment (SLI) to a language-matched comparison group that had not been referred for SLI assessment. A typical language comparison group with similar nonverbal IQ was also included. There were approximately 35 children in each group, aged 9- to 10-years-old, and the children completed a range of standardised language, motor and literacy measures. The results showed that the SLI group scored significantly lower than the language-matched and typical language comparison groups on all of the motor and literacy measures. We conclude that language factors alone are insufficient to explain the extensive comorbid motor and literacy deficits shown by the children with SLI in this study. We suggest that the clinical diagnosis of SLI may be influenced by the presence of additional developmental difficulties, which should be made explicit in assessment procedures, and that intervention strategies, which address the broad range of difficulties experienced by children with a clinical diagnosis of SLI, should be prioritised. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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