Background: Many children who are identified with language delay in the early preschool years (age 2-3) will go on to develop age appropriate language skills by age 4-5, however some will continue to present with language ...

Background: A link between gesture and early language development is well-established (Owens, 2005; Iverson & Goldin-Meadow, 2005). O’Neill and Chiat (2012) found a significant correlation between symbolic comprehension ...

Background: There is a limited evidence base available in the area of oral language comprehension for children with primary language comprehension difficulties, with existing research which demonstrates treatment effectiveness ...

Background: Current research investigating effective interventions for receptive language comprehension deficits in children with a Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is limited to date. Many of these studies focus on ...

Background: Previous studies have highlighted the resistance of receptive language impairment (RLI) to intervention. This is especially evident where interventions aim to treat oral comprehension deficits in children in ...

Background: Children with Specific Language Impairment (CwSLI) demonstrate difficulties with verb knowledge, verb argument production and sentence structure. There is a lack of evidence around the processing and production ...