The Impact of Dual Tasking on Sentence Comprehension in Children With Specific Language Impairment.
Purpose: In this study, the authors assessed the hypothesis of a limitation in attentional allocation capacity as underlying poor sentence comprehension in children with specific language impairment (SLI). Method: Fifteen children with SLI, 15 age-matched controls, and 15 grammar-matched controls pa...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 56; no. 1; pp. 265 - 281 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Feb2013
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