Executive Function Performance in Spanish-Speaking Children With Developmental Language Disorder: Uniformity and Variability.
Purpose: Developmental language disorder (DLD) is often associated with deficits in executive functions (EFs), but the specific pattern of which components are affected remains unclear. This study examined EF performance in Spanish-speaking children with DLD compared to typically developing (TD) pee...
| Published in: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 68; no. 12; pp. 5921 - 5938 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=190171418&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 190171418 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 10924388 1SM jtl: Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research issn: 10924388 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2025 vid: 68 iid: 12 pid: 42 pub: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association artinfo: ui: 190171418 10.1044/2025_JSLHR-24-00344 ppf: 5921 ppct: 17 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 1.1MB tig: atl: Executive Function Performance in Spanish-Speaking Children With Developmental Language Disorder: Uniformity and Variability. aug: au: Torres-Morales, Felipe Morgan, Gary Reyes, María Antonia Vega, Marcela Rosas, Ricardo affil: Departamento de Fonoaudiología, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago Hospital Clínico Universidad de Chile, Santiago Escuela de Psicología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago Department of Psychology and Education Sciences, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain Centro de Justicia Educacional, Facultad de Educación, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago su: Chile Cross-sectional method Psychology of children with disabilities Task performance Executive function Socioeconomic factors Developmental disabilities Attention Language disorders Memory Children Auditory perception testing Cognitive testing T-test (Statistics) Research funding Analysis of covariance Spanish language Neuropsychological tests Comparative studies sug: subj: Cross-sectional method Psychology of children with disabilities Task performance Executive function Socioeconomic factors Developmental disabilities Attention Language disorders Memory Children Chile Auditory perception testing Cognitive testing T-test (Statistics) Research funding Analysis of covariance Spanish language Neuropsychological tests Comparative studies ab: Purpose: Developmental language disorder (DLD) is often associated with deficits in executive functions (EFs), but the specific pattern of which components are affected remains unclear. This study examined EF performance in Spanish-speaking children with DLD compared to typically developing (TD) peers matched for age and socioeconomic status. Method: The EFs, interference control, response inhibition, verbal and nonverbal working memory, and cognitive flexibility were assessed in 171 children between 6 and 8 years old: 72 with DLD and 99 who are TD. Group differences in EF performance were assessed after controlling for age and nonverbal reasoning. Results: Children with DLD had significantly lower performance in interference control, response inhibition, and verbal working memory compared to TD children. Nonverbal working memory and cognitive flexibility did not differ significantly between the groups. Interference control was the most affected EF in the DLD group, followed by verbal working memory and then respons e inhibition. In addition, a proportion of the DLD group had no difficulties when exploring each EF. Conclusion: Spanish-speaking children with DLD have a range of difficulties with EFs, with significant individual variability. Supplemental Material: https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.30410572 pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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