TY - JOUR
T1 - Motor Issues in Specific Language Impairment
T2 - a Window into the Underlying Impairment
AU - Sanjeevan, Teenu
AU - Rosenbaum, David A.
AU - Miller, Carol
AU - van Hell, Janet G.
AU - Weiss, Daniel J.
AU - Mainela-Arnold, Elina
N1 - Funding Information:
Teenu Sanjeevan, David A. Rosenbaum, Carol Miller, Janet G. van Hell, Daniel J. Weiss, and Elina Mainela-Arnold declare that they have no conflict of interest. This article does not contain any studies with human or animal subjects performed by any of the authors.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Springer International Publishing Switzerland.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/9/1
Y1 - 2015/9/1
N2 - This paper reviews the findings of recent studies examining the motor abilities of children with specific language impairment (SLI). Standardized measures of motor ability confirm that children with SLI exhibit deficits in fine and gross motor skill, both simple and complex. These difficulties also extend to speech-motor ability, particularly with the control of their articulatory movements. Communicative gesturing, on the other hand, does not appear to be significantly impacted in SLI. Some of the latest studies reviewed in this paper have examined motor processes supported by procedural memory, which is argued to be impaired in SLI. The results of these studies indicate that children with SLI have difficulty with motor sequence learning, but may show deficits in other procedural motor processes as well. Despite significant progress with understanding the motor issues in SLI, future studies are needed to hone in on the nature of this impairment.
AB - This paper reviews the findings of recent studies examining the motor abilities of children with specific language impairment (SLI). Standardized measures of motor ability confirm that children with SLI exhibit deficits in fine and gross motor skill, both simple and complex. These difficulties also extend to speech-motor ability, particularly with the control of their articulatory movements. Communicative gesturing, on the other hand, does not appear to be significantly impacted in SLI. Some of the latest studies reviewed in this paper have examined motor processes supported by procedural memory, which is argued to be impaired in SLI. The results of these studies indicate that children with SLI have difficulty with motor sequence learning, but may show deficits in other procedural motor processes as well. Despite significant progress with understanding the motor issues in SLI, future studies are needed to hone in on the nature of this impairment.
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U2 - 10.1007/s40474-015-0051-9
DO - 10.1007/s40474-015-0051-9
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85014921205
SN - 2196-2987
VL - 2
SP - 228
EP - 236
JO - Current Developmental Disorders Reports
JF - Current Developmental Disorders Reports
IS - 3
ER -
