Understanding the language difficulties of children with specific language impairments: does verbal working memory matter?

Many children with specific language impairment (SLI) demonstrate deficits in both verbal working memory (VWM) and language. Among child language researchers, the debate continues whether these two deficits are related. In this article, I take the position that there is indeed a connection between S...

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Publicado en:American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 77 - 92
Autor principal: Montgomery JW
Formato: review Journal Article
Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Feb2002
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          Language Disorders In Infancy and Childhood
          Memory Disorders In Infancy and Childhood
          Theory
          Language Development
          Infant
          Child, Preschool
          Memory
          Phonology
          Language Processing
          Causal Attribution
          Infant: 1-23 months
          Child, Preschool: 2-5 years
      ab: Many children with specific language impairment (SLI) demonstrate deficits in both verbal working memory (VWM) and language. Among child language researchers, the debate continues whether these two deficits are related. In this article, I take the position that there is indeed a connection between SLI and VWM. I review evidence suggesting that the lexical/morphological learning and sentence comprehension problems of many of these children are associated with deficient VWM abilities. Evidence is also reviewed for the possibility that deficient VWM provides a clinical marker of SLI. I end by offering various assessment and intervention techniques that may prove useful in SLI.
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