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Maas, Edwin; Robin, Donald A.; Wright, David L.; Ballard, Kirrie J. – Brain and Language, 2008
Apraxia of Speech (AOS) is an impairment of motor programming. However, the exact nature of this deficit remains unclear. The present study examined motor programming in AOS in the context of a recent two-stage model [Klapp, S. T. (1995). Motor response programming during simple and choice reaction time: The role of practice. "Journal of…
Descriptors: Articulation (Speech), Reaction Time, Serial Ordering, Patients
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Mainela-Arnold, Elina; Evans, Julia L. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2005
Reduced verbal working memory capacity has been proposed as a possible account of language impairments in specific language impairment (SLI). Studies have shown, however, that differences in strength of linguistic representations in the form of word frequency affect list recall and performance on verbal working memory tasks. This suggests that…
Descriptors: Expressive Language, Receptive Language, Word Recognition, Verbal Ability