For slides and more information on the paper, visit https://ai.science/e/screening-and-an... Speaker: Garima Sharma; Host: Muhammad Rehman Zafar, Ozan Ozyegen Motivation: A child having a delayed development in language skills without any reason is known to be suffering from specific language impairment (SLI). Unfortunately, almost 7% kindergarten children are reported with SLI in their childhood. In this article, authors propose a machine learning based system to screen the SLI speech by analyzing the texture of the speech utterances.