Towards a Typology of Specific Language Impairment

Autor/inn/en	Van Weerdenburg, Marjolijn; Verhoeven, Ludo; Van Balkom, Hans
Titel	Towards a Typology of Specific Language Impairment
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 47 (2006) 2, S.176-189 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0021-9630
DOI	10.1111/j.1469-7610.2005.01454.x
Schlagwörter	Speech; Semantics; Language Impairments; Language Tests; Cognitive Tests; Multivariate Analysis; Foreign Countries; Teaching Methods; Language Classification; Young Children; Factor Analysis; Sample Size; Memory; Correlation; Allied Health Personnel; Speech Language Pathology; Heterogeneous Grouping; Speech Therapy; Auditory Stimuli; Verbal Ability; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Speaking; Sprechen; Semantik; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Language test; Sprachtest; Kognitiver Fähigkeitstest; Multivariate Analyse; Ausland; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Sprachtypologie; Frühe Kindheit; Faktorenanalyse; Gedächtnis; Korrelation; Entwicklungsproximale Sprachtherapie; Logotherapie; Auditive Stimulation; Mündliche Leistung; Niederlande
Abstract	Background: The population of children with specific language impairments (SLI) is heterogeneous. The present study was conducted to examine this heterogeneity more closely, by identifying and describing subgroups within the population of children with SLI in the Netherlands. Method: A broad battery of language tests and language-related cognitive tests were administered to 147 six-year-old and 136 eight-year-old children with SLI. Results: Factor analyses revealed 4 factors indicating 4 distinctive linguistic domains for both age samples: 1) lexical-semantic abilities, 2) auditory conceptualization, 3) verbal sequential memory and 4) speech production. These empirical findings were further validated by the positive correlations found between the language factors and the judgments of teachers and speech therapists. Finally, a cluster analysis revealed 4 distinct clusters of SLI children for each sample with specific language profiles based on the 4 factors. Results were nearly the same for both age samples. Conclusions: The language problems that emerged from the two samples of children with SLI could be described as falling into four types. Based on these language types, four subgroups of children with SLI could be distinguished, each with a specific profile. Some subgroups had severe problems on one specific type of language problem; others had severe problems in more than one type of language problem when compared to the other subgroups of the same age sample. The different profiles may indicate that a more dynamic approach is needed in intervention, considering the presence of both compensating and restricting factors within each child with SLI. (As Provided).
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