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Edwards, Jan; Lahey, Margaret – Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1996
This study compared the auditory lexical decision times of children (N=46, mean age=7) with specific language impairment (SLI) to those of typically developing age peers. Although SLI children were significantly slower than peers, speed of word recognition was not correlated with measures of language comprehension for the SLI group. Possible…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Children, Language Impairments, Reaction Time
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Fawcett, Angela J.; Nicolson, Roderick I. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1994
Naming speed skills of 45 dyslexic children (mean ages=8, 13, and 17) and slow learning children (mean age=10) were compared with those of normally achieving children. Results indicated that children with dyslexia and slow learners have persistent and severe problems in naming speed for all stimuli, regardless of whether the stimulus requires…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Decoding (Reading), Dyslexia, Expressive Language