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Peer reviewedRoeltgen, David P.; Heilman, Kenneth M. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1985
Proposes a theoretical information-processing-based neuropsychological model of writing and oral spelling which contains linguistic and motor components and which helps explain agraphia independently of other language disorders. Disruption of the phonological system is thought to cause phonological agraphia. Disruption of the lexical system is…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Information Processing, Language Handicaps, Language Processing
Processing Limitations in Children with Specific Language Impairment: The Role of Executive Function
Direct linkIm-Bolter, Nancie; Johnson, Janice; Pascual-Leone, Juan – Child Development, 2006
Research suggests that children with specific language impairment (SLI) have processing limitations; however, the mechanisms involved have not been well defined or investigated in a theory-guided manner. The theory of constructive operators was used as a framework to explore processes underlying limited processing capacity in children with SLI.…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Children, Language Skills, Language Acquisition
Tillman, Chester E.; And Others – 1973
Researchers investigating the cerebral information processing of visual stimuli have usually followed the pattern of stimulating the subject's eyes with light and observing accompanying changes in brain wave patterns. Such visually evoked responses (VERs) have been found to discriminate bright from dull children and dyslexic from normal readers.…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Error Analysis (Language), Error Patterns, Language Processing
