Specific Language Impairment. A severe difficulty in some aspect of listening, speaking, reading, writing, or spelling, while skills in other areas are age-appropriate. Also called Specific Language Learning Disability.
Specific language impairment. A primary language disorder also known as developmental aphasia, dysphasia, childhood aphasia, and language disability. It is thought to be a disorder of language expression, comprehension, or both and demonstrated by uneven language development, poor auditory processing skills, short auditory memory, disordered temporal sequencing, and repetition of auditory patterns.