title: Studying some elicited verbal prosodic patterns in Egyptian specific language impaired children.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Prosody is the aspect of language that conveys emotion by changes in tone, rhythm, and emphasis during speech and the term specific language impairment (SLI) refers to children whose language development is substantially below their chronological age, despite a normal nonverbal intelligence and no obvious neurological or physiological impairments, or emotional and/or social difficulties that could impact language use.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To assess prosodic skills in Arabic speaking children with specific language impairment, in order to answer the question "Are SLI children dysprosodic?" And to be put in consideration while choosing and applying the training procedure hence, qualifies the rehabilitation program.
  
  
  METHODS
  Thirty Egyptian normal children and 30 Egyptian children with specific language impairment (SLI) aged between 4 and 6 years were included in this study and were subjected to psychometric evaluation, audio logical assessment, Arabic language test, articulation test, and assessment protocol of prosody.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Egyptian specific language impaired children have lower prosodic skills scores than control group with positive significant correlation between total language ages of specific language impaired children and total prosodic scores.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Egyptian specific language impaired children have dysprosodic skills and the intervention program must include prosodic rehabilitation program in order to achieve higher improvement level.
authors.affiliation: Unit of Phoniatrics, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Beni Suef University, Egypt. Electronic address: safynagib@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Safinaz Nagib
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Azab
authors.affiliation: Unit of Phoniatrics, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Beni Suef University, Egypt.
authors.forename: Heba
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ashour
mesh_terms: D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004534:Egypt; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D013062:Speech Articulation Tests; D013064:Speech Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis
keywords: Assessment; Dysprosody; Intervention; Prosody; Skills; Specific language impairment