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Specific Language Impairment (SLI) or Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)

Specific Language Impairment (SLI), also called Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), consists of an alteration or delay in the receptive and/or expressive development of oral language. It affects both the acquisition and development of this since its beginning, manifesting significant difficulties and cognitive, communicative and social consequences. In addition, SLI is manifested without the presence of […]

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Conference: ‘An overcoming story with a specific language disorder’. El Periódico de Melilla.

Eva Aguilar Mediavila PhD has been in Melilla talking about an overcoming story with a specific language disorder.

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Is bilingualism losing its advantage? A bibliometric approach

This study explores the publication trends in relation to the well-known advantage of bilingualism in the last 10 years. The bilingual advantage refers to the results where it is found that bilingual people have better abilities than monolingual people. Thus, with the use of different bibliometric indexes, it was seen that, until 2013, the works […]

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Preschool processing skills provide reading results in bilingual Spanish-Catalan children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI)

Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) have an alteration or a delay in the development of oral language and, thus, show linguistic difficulties. Nevertheless, SLI shows up without cognitive and auditory deficits, neurological damage or socio-emotional deprivation. Notwithstanding, previous studies have shown that children with SLI show some cognitive and literacy problems. In this way, […]

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Reading competences in young adolescents with Specific Language Impairment (SLI): The role of early semantic capacity

This study evaluated the reading abilities between 8 and 12 years in bilingual Catalan-Spanish children with Specific Language Impairment. The difficulties of oral language of these children at preschool age can affect the subsequent acquisition of reading. The results showed that, in effect, these children had problems of decoding and reading comprehension at 8 years, […]

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Longitudinal trajectories of representation and access to phonological information in bilingual children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI)

The study describes the development of various linguistic processing abilities in bilingual children with SLI between 6 and 12 years old. The results found that, at all ages, children with SLI had difficulties in repetition of sentences, in phonological fluency (production and correct expression of sounds and words) and phonological awareness without visual signs (awareness […]

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Oral morphosyntactic competence as a predictor of reading comprehension in children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI)

Children with SLI tend to present a deficit in oral comprehension. In that way, the study intends to investigate the influence of oral comprehension on reading comprehension in children of 7 and 8 years in Catalan-Spanish bilingual with SLI. At the age of 7-8 years, children with SLI had similar results to their age peers […]

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Referential communication in bilingual Catalan-Spanish children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI)

The study analysed the quality of the messages that children with Specific Language Disorder expressed in a referential communication task. In referential communication tasks, children had to describe the positioning of various objects of an image to an adult who doesn’t see them. Children of 8 years with SLI produced lower correct messages than other […]

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How to deal with our children holidays? Notícies UOC.

Daniel Adrover PhD with Amàlia Gordóvil had talked about the strategies in order to deal with our children during these long holidays

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Linguistic development and disorders in Spanish-speaking children

International collaboration that has the objective of transmitting the knowledge acquired through scientific research on the acquisition of Spanish as the main or secondary language. In this book we find descriptions of the processes that take place during the acquisition of this language, as well as the variables that need to be taken into account, […]