Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation, University of Belgrade, Serbia.
Res Dev Disabil. 2010 Nov-Dec;31(6):1633-44. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2010.04.020. Epub 2010 May 26.
Specific language impairment (SLI) is usually defined as a developmental language disorder which does not result from a hearing loss, autism, neurological and emotional difficulties, severe social deprivation, low non-verbal abilities. Children affected with SLI typically have difficulties with the acquisition of different aspects of language and by definition, their impairment is specific to language and no other skills are affected. However, there has been a growing body of literature to suggest that children with SLI also have non-linguistic deficits, including impaired motor abilities. The aim of the current study is to investigate language and motor abilities of a group of thirty children with SLI (aged between 4 and 7) in comparison to a group of 30 typically developing children matched for chronological age. The results showed that the group of children with SLI had significantly more difficulties on the language and motor assessments compared to the control group. The SLI group also showed delayed onset in the development of all motor skills under investigation in comparison to the typically developing group. More interestingly, the two groups differed with respect to which language abilities were correlated with motor abilities, however Imitation of Complex Movements was the unique skill which reliably predicted expressive vocabulary in both typically developing children and in children with SLI.
特定语言损伤（SLI）通常被定义为一种发育性语言障碍，它不是由听力损失、自闭症、神经和情绪困难、严重的社会剥夺、非言语能力低下引起的。受 SLI 影响的儿童通常在语言的不同方面存在困难，根据定义，他们的损伤是特定于语言的，没有其他技能受到影响。然而，越来越多的文献表明，SLI 儿童也存在非语言缺陷，包括运动能力受损。本研究的目的是调查 30 名 SLI 儿童（年龄在 4 至 7 岁之间）与 30 名按年龄匹配的正常发育儿童的语言和运动能力。结果表明，与对照组相比，SLI 组在语言和运动评估方面有明显更多的困难。与正常发育组相比，SLI 组在所有被调查的运动技能的发展上也表现出延迟。更有趣的是，这两个组在哪些语言能力与运动能力相关方面存在差异，然而，模仿复杂动作是唯一能够可靠地预测正常发育儿童和 SLI 儿童表达性词汇的技能。
