Associated Co- morbidities of Specific Language Impairmen

Abstract

Specific Language Impairment is a neuro developmental disorder that affect around 3-7% of children. It occurs when children present language maturation at least 12 months behind their chronological age in the absence of sensory or intellectual deficits, pervasive developmental disorders, evident cerebral damages and adequate social and emotional condition. Children with SLI may present with a wide range of different disturbances in language processing depending on the linguistic level (phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic or even pragmatic) or the modality of language use (comprehension VS production) moreover children with SLI have a hallmark phenotype (poor grammatical abilities).