ArticleJournal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR2022
Working Memory Performance in Children With Developmental Language Disorder: The Role of Domain.
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- Effects of auditory training on children with developmental language disorder: a systematic review.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
- Executive functions in children with developmental language disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Pooled it
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- Language and cognitive function in children: a narrative review of neural, behavioral, and developmental evidence.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Finding the Mole and Choosing the Apple: Executive Function Challenges in Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD).Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Procedural Memory Deficits in Preschool Children with Developmental Language Disorder in a Spanish-Speaking Population.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Less Versus More: The Effect of Recast Length in Treatment of Grammatical Errors.Language, speech, and hearing services in schools · 2024Article
- Cognitive processes associated with working memory in children with developmental language disorder.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2023Article
- Are items actively removed from working memory during free time in children with developmental language disorder?International journal of language & communication disorders · 2022Article
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purposeThis study examined working memory in children with developmental language disorder (DLD). The overarching goal of this work was to integrate three primary processing-based hypotheses of DLD, (a) limited verbal working memory, (b) slowed processing speed, and (c) inefficient inhibition of interference, by using the serial-order-in-a-box-complex span (SOB-CS) computational model as our theoretical framework. We also examined the role of domain in working memory performance by varying the domain of interference and recall (i.e., verbal vs. nonverbal) task demands.
methodParticipants were 55 school-age children, 21 children with DLD and 34 age-matched typically developing (TD) peers (9-13 years old).
resultsFindings indicated that verbal and nonverbal working memory performance was poorer in the DLD than TD group. There was a modest benefit of dispersing interference and recall task demands across domains relative to task demands being within one domain, yet verbal interference affected performance to a greater degree than nonverbal interference in the DLD group.
conclusionsOverall findings supported a role for each of the processing-based hypotheses of DLD, albeit an incomplete role. In contrast, the SOB-CS model accounted for interrelationships among these processing-based factors and provided an explanation across patterns of findings. Thus, the SOB-CS model represents a useful step forward in explaining processing in children with DLD. SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIAL: https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.19526179.
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