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Underlying deficits in language-disordered children with central auditory processing difficulties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2015

Denita James ,
Willem van Steenbrugge  and
Keith Chiveralls
Denita James
Affiliation:
Flinders University
Willem van Steenbrugge*
Affiliation:
Flinders University
Keith Chiveralls
Affiliation:
Flinders University
*
Department of Speech Pathology, School of Medicine, Flinders University, P.O. Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001
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Abstract

Phonological working memory and auditory processing skills were investigated in a group of language-disordered children with central auditory processing (CAP) difficulties. Comparisons were made with two groups of control children, one group matched on chronological age and nonverbal intelligence and the other matched on language age. The CAP disordered children showed poorer abilities in nonword repetition and word recall. In agreement with earlier findings in language-disordered children (Gathercole & Baddeley, 1990), the CAP disordered children were sensitive to the phonological similarity and word length of the recall lists. However, contrary to earlier findings, the CAP disordered children in the present study also showed poorer phoneme discrimination skills. These findings may be inconsistent with the notion of one central deficit (poor phonological working memory) in CAP disordered children with a language deficit.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , July 1994 , pp. 311 - 328
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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