Neurological markers in children with Specific Language Impairment: A Review

Abstract

Specific language impairment (SLI) is a language disorder that delays the majority of language skills in children who have no hearing loss or other developmental delays. Its origin and nature have been long discussed. This controversy born to the necessity of a specific diagnosis for specific language impairment differed from other developmental language disorders as dyslexia or autism spectrum disorder. Several studies tried to examine the brain neuroanatomy and abnormalities of this disorder in order to find any relationship between the impairment in language skills and subsequence poor performance in language test. This paper offer a general view of the specific language impairment, focused specifically on the neuroimaging studies examining SLI pretending to be aware of the diagnosis criteria of the participants and methodology used. Moreover it’s expected to find how these brain abnormalities could affect language skills.