SLI and literacy in children

[Ann Dowker]

One of the best recent books on SLI in children is Dorothy Bishop's
"Uncommon Understanding".

As regards SLI and literacy, you may also be interested in:

D. Bishop and S. Adams: A prospective study of the relationship between
specific language impairment, phonological disorders and reading
retardation; Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 1990, 31,
1027-1050

H.W. Catts: Early language impairments and developmental dyslexia;
Dyslexia, 1995, 1, 51-53

A. Van Kleeck: Metalinguistic development. In G.P. Wallach and
K.G. Butler: Language Learning Disabilities in School-Aged Children and
Adolescents: Some Underlying Principles and  Applications; Baltimore: Williams
and Wilkins, 1993


Victoria Joffe's thesis at the University of Oxford Department of
Experimental Psychology (1998) dealt very interestingly with this topic.

Ann