The Grammatical Deficits of Persian-Speaking Children with Specific Language Impairment
Background: Specific language impairment (SLI) is one of the most common disorders of language development in children, which has been less addressed in Persian studies. The aim of this study was to evaluate the grammatical characteristics of Persian-speaking children with SLI using Photographic...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
2017-12-01
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| Series: | Journal of Rehabilitation Sciences and Research |
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| Online Access: | http://jrsr.sums.ac.ir/index.php/jrsr/article/view/249/125 |
| Summary: | Background: Specific language impairment (SLI) is one of the most common
disorders of language development in children, which has been less addressed
in Persian studies. The aim of this study was to evaluate the grammatical
characteristics of Persian-speaking children with SLI using Photographic
Expressive Persian Grammar Test (PEGT).
Methods: This case-control, cross-sectional study was conducted on 16 children
with SLI and 16 normal children aged 4-6 years, who were monolingual Persian
speakers. The subjects in both groups were age- and gender-matched. After
selecting each participant, PEGT was administered and results were recorded
in an answer sheet and analyzed. To analyze the data, the mean total scores of
the test and mean scores related to each syntactic structure of the PEGT were
compared between the two groups using Mann–Whitney test.
Results: In this study, a significant difference was observed in mean total
scores of the test between the studied groups. In detail, the mean score of the
normal group was significantly higher as compared with the SLI group (P<0.05).
Moreover, a significant difference was found between the groups regarding each
of the evaluated syntactic structures (P<0.05).
Conclusion: According to the results of the present study, children with SLI had
weaker performance as compared with their normally developing age-matched
peers in evaluated morphosyntactic structures. |
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| ISSN: | 2345-6159 2345-6159 |