Medical aspects of specific language impairment

Abstract

Diagnosis of specific language impairment (SLI) is often adopted for preschool children. After enrollment in primary school, young children with SLI will show various states-ranging from normality to learning disabilities, mild mental retardation and autism. The specificity of SLI does not persist until school age, and therefore we should pay attention to their present difficulties after school age. While, there are children with difficulties of language comprehension whose difficulties are found after enrollment in primary school. These children are considered a subtype of SLI. They also show serious learning disabilities, and they must be considered a novel type of learning disability.