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Clumsiness and perceptual problems in children with specific language impairment.

R P Powell1, D V Bishop

  • 1Department of Clinical Psychology, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Pendlebury.

Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
|September 1, 1992
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Children with specific language impairment (SLI) exhibit clumsiness and sensorimotor deficits, similar to non-language-impaired clumsy children. These deficits extend to visual discrimination tasks, impacting overall development.

Area of Science:

  • Developmental psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Speech-language pathology

Background:

  • Clumsiness is a common observation in children with developmental language disorders.
  • Previous research identified 'clumsy children' with motor and perceptual impairments but without language difficulties.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if motor and perceptual impairments in children with specific language impairment (SLI) mirror those in non-language-impaired clumsy children.
  • To characterize the nature of clumsiness and associated deficits in SLI.

Main Methods:

  • Comparison of 17 children with SLI against 17 age, sex, IQ, and SES-matched controls.
  • Assessment using a test battery for motor skills and visual discrimination.
  • Analysis for evidence of lateralized impairments.

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Main Results:

  • Children with SLI performed significantly worse than controls on motor skills and visual discrimination tasks.
  • No lateralized impairments were detected in the SLI group.
  • Sensorimotor deficits in SLI children extended to visual discrimination tasks without motor components.

Conclusions:

  • Developmental clumsiness in children with SLI is comparable to that observed in clumsy children without language impairments.
  • Sensorimotor deficits in SLI are pervasive, affecting visual discrimination abilities.
  • Findings suggest a shared underlying mechanism for clumsiness across language-impaired and non-language-impaired populations.