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Key-DeLyria, Sarah E.; Rogalski, Yvonne; Bodner, Todd; Weichselbaum, Amanda – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2022
Background: Individuals with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) may experience chronic cognitive-linguistic impairments that are difficult to evaluate with existing measures. Garden path sentences are linguistically complex sentences that lead readers down a path to an incorrect interpretation. Previous research indicates many individuals, with or…
Descriptors: Sentences, Ambiguity (Semantics), Reading Comprehension, Head Injuries
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Moreno-Pérez, Francisco J.; Rodríguez-Ortiz, Isabel R.; Tavares, Gema; Saldaña, David – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2020
Background: It has been established that people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often have difficulties understanding spoken language. Understanding reflexive and clitic pronouns is vital to establishing reference-based inference, but it is as yet unclear whether such constructions pose specific difficulties for those with ASD. Pronoun…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Form Classes (Languages), Developmental Disabilities
Fairchild, Lyndsay; Gadke, Daniel L. – Communique, 2018
Central auditory processing disorder (CAPD), as defined by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), refers to difficulties in the perceptual processing of auditory information in the central nervous system and the neurobiological activity that underlies that processing and gives rise to electrophysiologic auditory potentials (ASHA,…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Language Processing, Cognitive Processes, Auditory Stimuli
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Berninger, Virginia; Abbott, Robert; Cook, Clayton R.; Nagy, William – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
Relationships between attention/executive functions and language learning were investigated in students in Grades 4 to 9 (N = 88) with and without specific learning disabilities (SLDs) in multiword syntax in oral and written language (OWL LD), word reading and spelling (dyslexia), and subword letter writing (dysgraphia). Prior…
Descriptors: Correlation, Attention Control, Executive Function, Multiple Regression Analysis
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Riccio, Cynthia A.; And Others – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1996
This study analyzed the performance of 30 children (ages 9-11) with central auditory processing disorders (CAPD), to test the validity of the Auditory Continuous Performance Test in differentiating between CAPD with and without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Results indicated limited potential of the test in the differential…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Auditory Perception, Auditory Tests, Clinical Diagnosis
Gonzalez, Virginia – 1993
A method for assessing the cognitive and linguistic stages of second language learning in individuals is discussed. The approach is based on a psycholinguistic theory that views language learning as a process of concept formation in three domains: cognitive, cultural, and linguistic. According to the model presented, Spanish-English bilingual…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Clinical Diagnosis, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Ciocci, Sandra R. – 2002
This digest presents an overview of children with auditory processing disorders (APDs), children who can typically hear information but have difficulty attending to, storing, locating, retrieving, and/or clarifying that information to make it useful for academic and social purposes. The digest begins by describing central auditory processing and…
Descriptors: Auditory Evaluation, Auditory Perception, Auditory Training, Classroom Environment