Verbal working memory and story retelling in school-age children with autism.
Purpose: This study examined verbal working memory and language ability in 15 school-age children with autism using 3 verbal working memory tasks and 1 story recall task. Method: Three measures of verbal working memory-nonword repetition, memory for digits span, and sentence imitation-were given to...
| Publicado en: | Language, Speech & Hearing Services in Schools Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 498 - 512 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Oct2008
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