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The Impact of Dual-Tasking on Sentence Comprehension in Children with Specific Language Impairment
Leclercq, Anne-Lise; Majerus, Steve; Prigent, Gaïd et al.
2013In Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 56, p. 265-280
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Keywords :
specific language impairment; sentence comprehension; processing capacities
Abstract :
[en] Purpose: This study assesses the hypothesis of a limitation in attentional allocation capacity as underlying poor sentence comprehension in children with SLI. Method: Fifteen children with SLI, 15 age-matched controls, and 15 grammar-matched controls. Sixty sentences were presented in isolation, and 60 sentences were presented with a concurrent non-linguistic target-detection task. If poor attentional allocation capacity is a core deficit in SLI, they should be impaired to a greater extent in the dual task condition relative to the grammatical-age controls. On the contrary, a comparable performance decrement under the dual-task condition in children with SLI and younger language controls would attest of a limitation in attentional allocation capacity in children with SLI that is not disproportionate to their language level. Results: Sentence comprehension was affected by the dual-task condition to a greater extent in children with SLI relative to age-controls, but not relative to grammatical-controls. Conclusions: Our study does not support limitations in attentional allocation capacity as representing a core deficit in SLI. Rather, our data show that these children show attentional allocation capacity comparable to that of younger children having similar language level, suggesting that SLI is characterized by a slowed development of both attentional and language domains.
Disciplines :
Neurosciences & behavior
Author, co-author :
Leclercq, Anne-Lise  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Logopédie clinique
Majerus, Steve  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Psychopathologie cognitive
Prigent, Gaïd ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Logopédie clinique
Maillart, Christelle  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Psychologie : cognition et comportement > Logopédie clinique
Language :
English
Title :
The Impact of Dual-Tasking on Sentence Comprehension in Children with Specific Language Impairment
Publication date :
February 2013
Journal title :
Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research
ISSN :
1092-4388
eISSN :
1558-9102
Publisher :
American Speech Language Hearing Association, Rockville, United States - Maryland
Volume :
56
Pages :
265-280
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Funders :
F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique
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