A Follow-Up Study on Italian Late Talkers: Development of Language, Short-Term Memory, Phonological Awareness, Impulsiveness, and Attention

Autor/inn/en	D'Odorico, Laura; Assanelli, Alessandra; Franco, Fabia; Jacob, Valentina
Titel	A Follow-Up Study on Italian Late Talkers: Development of Language, Short-Term Memory, Phonological Awareness, Impulsiveness, and Attention
Quelle	In: Applied Psycholinguistics, 28 (2007) 1, S.157-169 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-7164
DOI	10.1017/S0142716406070081
Schlagwörter	Sentences; Language Impairments; Phonological Awareness; Short Term Memory; Expressive Language; Followup Studies; Vocabulary Development; Language Acquisition; Foreign Countries; Young Children; Grammar; Comprehension; Comparative Analysis; Cognitive Development; Psychomotor Skills; Visual Perception; Attention Span; Syntax; Italy + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Kurzzeitgedächtnis; Follow-up studies; Kontaktstudium; Wortschatzarbeit; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Ausland; Frühe Kindheit; Grammatik; Verstehen; Verständnis; Kognitive Entwicklung; Psychomotorische Aktivität; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Italien
Abstract	This follow-up study compares cognitive and language aspects of a group of Italian children ages 4-6 years, who had shown delayed expressive language abilities at 24 months of age (late talkers), with those of a group of children with a history of normal expressive language development (average talkers). Children were given a battery of cognitive-neuropsychological tests to assess grammatical comprehension, vocabulary development, verbal short-term memory, phonological awareness, planning and visuomotor coordination, and attention and impulsiveness. No differences were found in the results between the two groups in the domains of attention, impulsiveness, and visuomotor planning, but in the domain of syntactic competence late talkers developed particular difficulties in the comprehension of passive negative sentences compared to average talkers. Late talkers also performed significantly worse on the nonword repetition task, which measures abilities closely connected with verbal short-term memory and phonological awareness. (As Provided).
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