El proceso lector en niños con antecedentes de retraso y trastorno específico del lenguaje

This study explores how the delay in oral language development and specific language impairment affects the reading development in 11-year-old children. For this reason, we assessed the reading of eight 11 years-old children that all of them had initially been diagnosed as language delay (at 3 years-old) and at 5 years-old were classified according to their level of language, between children with language delay (4 children) and children with specific language impairment (4 children). These children were applied two tests to analyze reader profile. The results indicate no differences between the groups, but both groups (children with a history of SLI as with LD) show difficulties in reading processes: seven of the eight (87.5%) children studied, have a level below their expected level in relation their age. In addition, the SLI group presents, in all cases, significant challenges both processes in lexical and semantic and syntactic processes involved in the reading process.