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Newbury, Dianne F.; Gibson, Jenny L.; Conti-Ramsden, Gina; Pickles, Andrew; Durkin, Kevin; Toseeb, Umar – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: Children with poor language tend to have worse psychosocial outcomes compared to their typically developing peers. The most common explanations for such adversities focus on developmental psychological processes whereby poor language triggers psychosocial difficulties. Here, we investigate the possibility of shared biological effects by…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Language Variation, Psychological Patterns, Social Development
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Conti-Ramsden, Gina; Durkin, Kevin – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2007
Background: Research has consistently documented a relationship between phonological short-term memory skills (STM) and specific language impairment (SLI). This study reports on the development of phonological STM abilities over 3 years in 80 young adolescents with a history of SLI, investigating the nature of the relationship between phonological…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Early Adolescents, Regression (Statistics), Adolescents