Identificación y clasificación de alumnado con Trastorno Específico del Lenguaje

The aim of this study was two-fold. Firstly, to identify the instruments that help to more accurately distinguish between children with normal development and those with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and, secondly, to establish the most important underlying characteristics that allow children with SLI to be grouped into different subtypes. The sample consisted of 33 children diagnosed with SLI and 20 children without language problems. Children were enrolled from the last year of preschool education (5 years) to Primary 5 (11 years). The results showed that the test that allows the most accurate diagnosis of SLI is the Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-Third Edition (CELF-3), and that there are two major subtypes of SLI, the phonological-syntactic subtype and the lexical-syntactic subtype.