CLAD-ITA GAPS: un test di screening delle abilità fonologiche e morfo-sintattiche in bambini con un Disturbo Specifico del Linguaggio [Development of the CLAD-ITA GAPS: A screening test to assess morpho-syntactic and phonological abilities in children with specific language impairment]

Summary. Ninenteen children (5-9 years old) diagnosed with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) were administered a screening test consisting of a sentence repetition and a non-word repetition task that is currently under standardization. This test is an adaptation to Italian of an English test (GAPS; Gardner, Froud, McClelland e Van der Lely, 2006)) and taps morphosyntactic and phonological dimensions that are clinical markers of SLI in Italian. SLI children performed poorly in both tasks as compared to three control groups: an age-matched controls, and two verbal-age matched groups (matched for morpho-syntactic and lexical comprehension, respectively). The sensitivity and the specificity of both tests indicated that each task and the combined score of both of them permit to correctly identify children with SLI from typically developing children.