The study investigated the bullying experiences of a population of 139 young people with specific language impairment (SLI) and a comparison group of 124 typically developing (TD) young people, both currently at 16 years and retrospectively. The majority of young people in each participant group did not report being teased or bullied currently, but the incidence of teasing or bullying was around 10 per cent higher in the SLI group (17.3 per cent) as compared to the TD group (7.2 per cent). Almost half (44.2 per cent) of the SLI group recall being teased or bullied when they were younger, compared with under a quarter (22.6 per cent) of the TD group and 13 per cent of the SLI group were found to have experienced persisting bullying across time. Behavioural/social-emotional problems were found to predict the likelihood of young people with SLI being bullied, while measures of IQ, language, literacy, friendship and prosocial ability were found to have no significant predictive effect. Current bullying in the SLI group was found to be significantly correlated with anxiety and depression symptoms. The fact that young people with SLI experience an increased vulnerability of being bullied is discussed, together with the implications for their mental health.