CO UTRUDNIA OPIS LOGOPEDYCZNYCH ZJAWISK? OD SŁUCHONIEMOTY, AFAZJI WRODZONEJ I ALALII DO SPECYFICZ-NEGO ZABURZENIA JĘZYKOWEGO (SLI)
What hinders the description of speech phenomena? From audiomutitas congenital aphasia and alalia to specific language impairment (SLI)

Summary/Abstract: This article, dedicated to Professor Stanis³aw Gajda because of his anniversary, raises theoretical issues of accuracy and explicitness of terms used in science which are familiar to him. Logopaedics, by virtue of its interdisciplinary character and exposure to borderline of numerous and often very distant from each other sciences such as anatomy, linguistics or physics, significantly uses appropriate for these sciences tools of descriptions (frequently doubling notions) and thus, it represents a very good example of discipline in which unnecessary overgrowth of terminology makes it difficult to track research results and quality analysis of phenomena. Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is one of those phenomena which, despite numerous trials of finding consensus and settlement on forums of international assemblies, is still differently termed (what suggests the title of this article). On the basis of this phenomenon uniquely interesting for researchers due to its multiformity and changeable character of dysfunction, the author endeavours to indicate how important for the progress of research and exchange of scientific thought is to operate unitary, unambiguous nomenclature and how much justified is the discourse dedicated to cultivating of description tools.

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