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Four-year follow-up study of language impaired children

Annals of Dyslexia volume 34, pages 49–68 (1984)Cite this article

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Children identified as normal or as specifically language impaired (SLI) were given speech, language, and intelligence testing on a longitudinal basis. Fourteen normal and 29 SLI children between the ages of 4 1/2 and 8 years were tested at Time 1. They were retested three to four years later when they were 8 to 12 years old. The results indicated that both the normal and the SLI children continued to develop skills in receptive and expressive language and speech articulation across the 3- to 4-year period intervening between evaluations. Overall, however, the SLI children appeared to develop language skills at a slower than normal rate and 80% of them remained language impaired at Time 2. In addition, the majority of the SLI children manifested reading impairment at Time 2, while none of the normal children did so. The implications for the educational management of SLI children are discussed.

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  1. Division of Communication Sciences and Disorders, John F. Kennedy Institute, Baltimore, Maryland

    Rachel E. Stark, Lynne E. Bernstein & Rosemary Condino

  2. Division of Special Education, John F. Kennedy Institute, Baltimore, Maryland

    Michael Bender

  3. Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Diego, USA

    Paula Tallal

  4. Department of Speech Communication, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio

    Hugh Catts

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Research supported by the March of Dimes, Grant #12-84.

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Stark, R.E., Bernstein, L.E., Condino, R. et al. Four-year follow-up study of language impaired children. Annals of Dyslexia 34, 49–68 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02663613

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Keywords

  • Language Ability
  • Specifically Language Impaired
  • Receptive Language
  • Reading Vocabulary
  • Speech Articulation