What is specific language impairment?
What will be an ideal response?
Specific language impairment (SLI) involves language development problems with no other obvious physical, sensory, or emotional difficulties. In some cases, the disorder is referred to as developmental language disorder. Children with SLI have problems in understanding and using words in sentences. One indicator of SLI in 5-year-old children is their incomplete understanding of verbs. They typically drop the -s from verb tenses (such as "She walk to the store" instead of "She walks to the store") and ask questions without "be" or "do" verbs (rather than saying "Does he live there?" the child will say "He live there?"). These characteristics make children with specific language impairment sound like children who are approximately two years younger than they are.
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