Grammar and syntactic deficit in children with specific developmental language impairment

Abstract

Specific language disorders include primary speech and language disorder developing in intelligent children without hearing damaged and visible neural damage. Even the fact of grammatical-syntactically deficits as characte-ristic of specific language disorders, they are not properly examined. Because of numerous variations in clinical manifestation and expression of specific language disorders, there is need for specific analysis of grammatical-syntactically deficits in children who had diagnoses of speech - language disorders. The aim of study was to analyse the grammatical-syntactically deficits in children who had diagnoses of speech - language disorders according to non- specific EEG changes. Material and methods: The entire sample included 30 patients from the Institute for Psycho - Physiological and Speech Disorders "Professor dr. Cvetko Brajovic". The sample was divided in the two groups by the findings of neurologists. The tests used for specific language disorders were: test decrypting of picture. The results were processed by methods of descriptive statistics. Results: Based on the descriptive statistical analysis, it was shown that there are differences in the grammatical-syntactic deficits examined groups. Conclusion: Assessment of the grammatical-syntactically abilities compa-red to non-specific EEG changes may have practical importance in specifying of the speech - language disorders and their prognosis.