Cognitive Predictors of Language Development in Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI)

Autor/inn/en	van Daal, John; Verhoeven, Ludo; van Balkom, Hans
Titel	Cognitive Predictors of Language Development in Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI)
Quelle	In: International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 44 (2009) 5, S.639-655 (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1368-2822
Schlagwörter	Speech Impairments; Phonology; Semantics; Syntax; Language Impairments; Language Tests; Short Term Memory; Language Acquisition; Cognitive Ability; Foreign Countries; Young Children; Indo European Languages; Cognitive Processes; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Speech impairment; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Language handicps; Language impairments; Sprachbehinderung; Fonologie; Semantik; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Language test; Sprachtest; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Denkfähigkeit; Ausland; Frühe Kindheit; Indoeuropäisch; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Niederlande
Abstract	Background: Language development is generally viewed as a multifactorial process. There are increasing indications that this similarly holds for the problematic language development process. Aims: A population of 97 young Dutch children with specific language impairment (SLI) was followed over a 2-year period to provide additional evidence for the existence of underlying language factors. Furthermore, the children's language development was related to their non-verbal intellectual reasoning capacity. Methods & Procedures: The language abilities were assessed via the administration of an extensive battery of language tests. Cognition was assessed via administration of the Raven progressive matrices, short-term memory capacity via administration of the Digit Span task. Outcomes & Results: The results provide empirical support for distinct language factors for children with language problems. The detected factors were labelled: phonology, lexical-semantics, syntax, and speech production, and were found to be stable and interrelated. Short-term memory showed strong relations with the language factor syntax and medium relations with the other language factors. Intellectual capacity showed weak to medium relations with three language factors but no relation with the factor speech. Conclusions & implications: The language development of 5- and 6-year-old Dutch children with SLI appears to be divided into four language factors. The language factors are very stable in this sample and correspond with language factors found in recent studies on language development in children with SLI. Short-term auditory memory turns out to play an important role in the problematic language acquisition of children with SLI. It is recommended that children with SLI should be assessed on possible deficits in information processing and/or short-term memory. The existence of such deficits calls for specific neuropsychological intervention. (Contains 2 tables and 2 figures.) (As Provided).
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