“…While normal children are able to discriminate two 75 msec tones separated by as little as 8 msec, language-impaired children require over a 350 msec in-terval to perform this same basic discrimination (Tallal and Piercy, 1973). These and other findings (Bakker, 1971;Tallal, 1980;Shucard et al, 1984;Byring and Jarvilehto, 1985;Obrzut et al, 1987;Pinkerton et al, 1989;Reed, 1989;Ortiz Alonso et al, 1990;Watson, 1992) strongly suggest a fundamental dysfunction of the basic ability to perform rapid auditory discriminations in individuals with LI. Subsequent studies have demonstrated similar temporal integration deficits in the visual and tactile modalities, as well as in the performance of sequential motor functions (Johnston et al, 1981;Tallal et al, 1981Tallal et al, , 1985Katz et al, 1992).…”