The present study aims to examine the relationship between developmental language deficit and children’s creative ability. For this purpose, we compared the performance of preschool children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) on general and mathematic creativity tests with that of typically developing children. The findings demonstrated that children with SLI performed almost identically on the general creativity task, compared with older preschoolers, and did generally better than children from the younger age group. However, on the mathematic creativity task, they did significantly better statistically than the younger children and worse than children from the older control groups. Thus, the results showed that creativity as a specific cognitive ability seems to develop in children with SLI in the same way as in their typically developing peers but at a slower rate. In addition, our findings demonstrate some degree of dissociation between the cognitive and linguistic abilities of children with SLI.

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有无特殊语言障碍（SLI）学龄前儿童创造能力测试

本研究旨在探讨发展性语言缺陷与儿童创造能力之间的关系。为此，我们将患有特定语言障碍 (SLI) 的学龄前儿童在一般和数学创造力测试中的表现与正常发育儿童的表现进行了比较。研究结果表明，与年龄较大的学龄前儿童相比，患有 SLI 的儿童在一般创造力任务上的表现几乎相同，并且通常比年龄较小的儿童表现得更好。然而，在数学创造力任务上，他们在统计上的表现明显好于年幼的孩子，但比年龄较大的对照组的孩子差。因此，结果表明，创造力作为一种特定的认知能力似乎在 SLI 儿童中的发展方式与他们通常发育的同龄人相同，但速度较慢。此外，我们的研究结果表明，SLI 儿童的认知能力和语言能力之间存在一定程度的分离。