The Effects of Phonological Short Term Memory on Lexical and Grammatical Production Skills in Persian Children with Developmental Language Disorder

Shahmahmood, Toktam Maleki; Soleymani, Zahra; Kazemi, Yalda; Haresabadi, Fatemeh; Eghbal, Negar; Kazemi, Homa; Amin, Somayeh

doi:10.1007/s10936-020-09734-3

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“…Results from a Persian population have shown that 6-8 year-old children with DLD experience significant difficulties in phonological short-term memory skills. Importantly, these difficulties seem to affect their lexical and grammatical performances [22].…”

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Visually supported short-term auditory memory in children with developmental language disorder (DLD)

Bryłka¹,

Cygan²

2023

J Hear Sci

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BackgroundDevelopmental language disorder (DLD) is an impairment that disturbs the ability to acquire and make use of native language. The exact cognitive and neuronal brain underpinnings of the disorder are still a matter of investigation.Material and methodsThe relationship between the audiovisual phonemic short-term memory and particular language abilities was examined among 7–9 year-old children with DLD as well as in a gender, age, and IQ-matched control group. Children were assessed with a standard language battery and the Stanford–Binet scale (SB5). Subsequently, they performed a short-term memory task requiring immediate recall of sequences composed of syllables presented audiovisually.ResultsThere were lower levels of audiovisual phonemic memory among children with DLD. They performed significantly worse than matched typically developing (TD) children in the experimental task and their performance was correlated with scores obtained in each language subtest. In contrast, we did not find between-group differences in visual short-term operational memory measured on the SB5 scale.ConclusionsThe present experiment replicated previous findings about short-term phonemic memory impairment in the DLD population. We found that memory impairment also occurs even if phoneme information is presented simultaneously in the auditory and visual domains. It appears that non-linguistic spatial cues accompanying phoneme stimuli do not overcome phonemic short-term memory impairment.

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