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SUMMARY:Comorbidity between Specific Language Impairments and Dyslexia - M
 aria Teresa Guasti\, University of Milano-Bicocca
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CONTACT:Teresa Parodi
DESCRIPTION:Although dyslexia is defined as a problem with learning to rea
 d\, many children with dyslexia present oral language problems. I will sho
 w that about 50% of the children with dyslexia that we tested met the crit
 eria for SLI\, based on one clinical marker of SLI in Italian (clitic prod
 uction) (Arosio et al.\, submitted). I also show that children with dyslex
 ia\, as children with SLI\, have problems with complex structures\, such a
 s relative clauses. Other areas\, such as pragmatics\, are less affected i
 n both populations. This indicates that some aspects of language are persi
 stently affected\, while others may only temporarily. This is confirmed by
  ERP studies with adults and children with developmental dyslexia\, which.
  indicate that subjects with dyslexia do not process orally presented ungr
 ammatical sentences in the same way as controls (Cantiani et al.\, 2012). 
 I assume that this co-occurrence of SLI and dyslexia is not due to chance.
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