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Jarrold, Christopher; Baddeley, Alan D.; Phillips, Caroline E. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2002
The short-term verbal memory performance of 19 children and young adults with Down syndrome (DS) was contrasted with that of two control groups. Results confirm the expected verbal short-term memory deficit in DS subjects and suggest that this deficit is specific to memory for verbal information and is not primarily caused by auditory or…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Children, Cognitive Processes, Down Syndrome

Easterbrooks, Susan R.; O'Rourke, Colleen M. – American Annals of the Deaf, 2001
This study examined the behavior of 70 children with hearing losses attending a clinical program providing an auditory-verbal intervention. Parents' ratings indicated that boys were more likely to display temperament features nonconducive to traditional clinical language intervention. Girls' language and placement outcomes surpassed the boys',…
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Children, Deafness, Hearing Impairments

Snowling, Maggie; And Others – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Describes three experiments that examined the processing of speech by dyslexic readers. Compares their performance with that of age-matched and reading-ability-matched controls. Shows that dyslexics have difficulty with the nonlexical procedures involved in verbal repetition. (HOD)
Descriptors: Auditory Perception, Children, Comparative Analysis, Dyslexia