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Auditory Processing and Speech Perception in Children with Specific Language Impairment: Relations with Oral Language and Literacy Skills
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Vandewalle, Ellen; Boets, Bart; Ghesquiere, Pol; Zink, Inge – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
This longitudinal study investigated temporal auditory processing (frequency modulation and between-channel gap detection) and speech perception (speech-in-noise and categorical perception) in three groups of 6 years 3 months to 6 years 8 months-old children attending grade 1: (1) children with specific language impairment (SLI) and literacy delay…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Language Impairments, Phonological Awareness, Auditory Perception
Predictors of Verbal Working Memory in Children with Cerebral Palsy
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Peeters, Marieke; Verhoeven, Ludo; de Moor, Jan – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
The goal of the present study was to examine the precursors of verbal working memory in 52 children with cerebral palsy with varying degrees of speech impairments in the first grade of special education. Following Baddeley's model of working memory, children's verbal working memory was measured by means of a forced-recognition task. As precursors…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Speech Impairments, Structural Equation Models, Phonological Awareness
Importance of Speech Production for Phonological Awareness and Word Decoding: The Case of Children with Cerebral Palsy
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Peeters, Marieke; Verhoeven, Ludo; de Moor, Jan; van Balkom, Hans – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
The goal of this longitudinal study was to investigate the precursors of early reading development in 52 children with cerebral palsy at kindergarten level in comparison to 65 children without disabilities. Word Decoding was measured to investigate early reading skills, while Phonological Awareness, Phonological Short-term Memory (STM), Speech…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Phonological Awareness, Cerebral Palsy, Short Term Memory