Talk:Specific language impairment

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They`re not necessarily the same. SLI is language disorder in the absence of anything else (e.g. cognitive impairment, physical impairment such as cerebral palsy). A language learning impairment could be defined as a difficulty learning language but that may be attributed to other issues such as those already mentioned. This is the general case in Canada, at least. In the US I suspect that the two are interchangeable, and that LLI (or more likely, LLD, language learning disability) is used as a general term for both. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.83.138.6 (talk) 20:03, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Is specific language impairment (SLI) the same as language learning impairment (LLI)? If not, what are the differences? If so, this article should describe the FastForWord treatment developed by Tallal and Merzenich.--Tdkehoe 15:56, 3 April 2006 (UTC)


 * iirc, I've seen papers written by Tallal on specific language impairment so it is likely that the two are the same, I wouldn't be happy with stating this as fact until I'd done further research. You might want to make a page on the FastForWord treatment maybe then that could be linked from here? - FrancisTyers 16:10, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

Developmental Language Disorder, page in draft, August 2017
Note from Dorothy Bishop As per the note below, some of us in this area made modifications to the SLI page. We have considered also incorporating more about new terminology recommendations that are current. The term Developmental Language Disorder is being adopted by a number of professional bodies with meaning that overlaps with SLI but is not identical. It proved quite difficult to integrate SLI and DLD without continually referring to points of difference, and so we decided to make a page for Developmental Language Disorder. This has so far (12th August 2017) been rejected by Wikipedia on the grounds that the page already exists! (Presumably this is a reference to the Specific Language Impairment page). We continue to discuss this with Wikipedia editors, but meanwhile, the draft page for Developmental Language Disorder is accessible from my Sandbox. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deevybee (talk • contribs) 12:55, 12 August 2017 (UTC)

Revision of this page underway, April 2017
I'm writing to let people know that this page is currently under review. A revision is planned to take into account results from the CATALISE project, which used the Delphi method with an international panel of experts to create consensus statements about criteria and terminology: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0158753 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcpp.12721/full

A subgroup of people from that expert panel are considering revisions to the page, and would welcome suggestions of articles for consideration. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deevybee (talk • contribs) 07:41, 1 April 2017 (UTC)