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NeuronUP. Web platform of cognitive rehabilitation
Specific language impairment (SLI) is a serious and long-lasting developmental disorder that affects the acquisition and development of spoken language. It can affect either comprehension, expression, or both. It is classified as a “heterogeneous” disorder because no two SLI are alike. Symptoms vary greatly from one child to another and do not always manifest in the …
Language is one of the main cognitive functions that allows us to produce, communicate, and understand ideas through sounds, symbols and/or gestures. In other owrds, language is ‘the result of a complex nervous activity that allows individuals to communicate mental states by the production of multi-modal signs that symbolise these states in accordance with a linguistic community´s own convention’ (Lecours et al., 1979).
