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11316485

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1407
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-4-24
pubmed:abstractText
Specific language impairment (SLI) is the term used to refer to unexplained difficulties in language acquisition in children. Over the past decade, there has been rapid growth of evidence indicating that genes play an important part in the aetiology of SLI. However, further progress in elucidating the role of genes in causing SLI is limited by our lack of understanding of the phenotype. Studies to date have been hampered by the fact that we do not know whether SLI should be treated as a discrete disorder or a continuous variable, let alone which measures should be used to identify cases, or how many subtypes there are. Recent research suggests that theoretically motivated measures of underlying processes may be better than conventional clinical diagnoses for identifying aetiologically distinct types of language impairment. There has been a tendency for researchers to embrace parsimony and look for a single cause of SLI-or in any event, to identify different subtypes, each with a different single cause. Research is reviewed that suggests that may not be a fruitful approach to SLI, and that an approach in terms of multiple risk and protective factors, which is widely adopted in medicine, is more realistic.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0962-8436
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
29
pubmed:volume
356
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
369-80
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-20
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Genetic and environmental risks for specific language impairment in children.
pubmed:affiliation
Oxford Study of Children's Communication Impairments, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK. dorothy.bishop@psy.ox.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review