Imitation of Body Postures and Hand Movements in Children with Specific Language Impairment

Autor/in	Marton, Klara
Titel	Imitation of Body Postures and Hand Movements in Children with Specific Language Impairment
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 102 (2009) 1, S.1-13 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0965
DOI	10.1016/j.jecp.2008.07.007
Schlagwörter	Language Impairments; Imitation; Kinesthetic Perception; Short Term Memory; Language Acquisition; Human Posture; Psychomotor Skills; Nonverbal Communication; Predictor Variables; Task Analysis; Cognitive Ability + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Kinaesthetic perception; Ästhetische Wahrnehmung; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Posture; Körperhaltung; Psychomotorische Aktivität; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Prädiktor; Aufgabenanalyse; Denkfähigkeit
Abstract	Within the domain-general theory of language impairment, this study examined body posture and hand movement imitation in children with specific language impairment (SLI) and in their age-matched peers. Participants included 40 children with SLI (5 years 3 months to 6 years 10 months of age) and 40 children with typical language development (5 years 3 months to 6 years 7 months of age). Five tests were used to examine imitation and its underlying cognitive and motor skills such as kinesthesia, working memory, and gross motor coordination. It was hypothesized that children with SLI show a weakness in imitation of body postures and that this deficit is not equally influenced by the underlying cognitive and motor skills. There was a group effect in each cognitive and motor task, but only gross motor coordination proved to be a strong predictor of imitation in children with SLI. In contrast, hand movement imitation was strongly predicted by performance in the Kinesthesia task in typically developing children. Thus, the findings show not only that children with SLI performed more poorly on the imitation tasks than their typically developing peers but also that the groups' performances showed qualitative differences. The results of the current study provide additional support to the view that the weaknesses in children with SLI are not limited to the verbal domain. (Contains 4 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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