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Buil-Legaz, Lucía; Aguilar-Mediavilla, Eva; Rodríguez-Ferreiro, Javier – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2016
Background: Children with a diagnosis of specific language impairment (SLI) present impaired oral comprehension. According to the simple view of reading, general amodal linguistic capacity accounts for both oral and reading comprehension. Considering this, we should expect SLI children to display a reading comprehension deficit. However, previous…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Oral Language, Reading Comprehension, Competence
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Aguilar-Mediavilla, Eva; Sanz-Torrent, Monica; Serra-Raventos, Miquel – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2007
Background: The profiles of children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) differ greatly according to the language they speak. The Surface Hypothesis attempts to explain these differences through the theory that children with SLI will incorrectly produce elements in their language with low phonological weights or that are produced in a…
Descriptors: Syllables, Spanish Speaking, Romance Languages, Language Impairments