School of Psychology, Queen's University, David Keir Building, 18-30 Malone Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland BT9 5BN, United Kingdom.
Res Dev Disabil. 2013 Sep;34(9):2533-42. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2013.05.015. Epub 2013 Jun 7.
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.
本研究旨在比较特定语言障碍（SLI）临床样本儿童的运动功能与未经 SLI 评估而匹配的语言对照组。还包括一个具有相似非言语智商的典型语言对照组。每组约有 35 名年龄在 9 至 10 岁的儿童，他们完成了一系列标准化的语言、运动和读写能力测试。结果表明，SLI 组在所有运动和读写能力测试中得分均明显低于语言匹配对照组和典型语言对照组。我们得出结论，仅语言因素不足以解释本研究中 SLI 儿童表现出的广泛的运动和读写能力缺陷。我们建议，临床 SLI 诊断可能受到其他发育困难的影响，在评估过程中应明确指出这些困难，应优先采用解决临床诊断为 SLI 的儿童所经历的广泛困难的干预策略。
