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Mengisidou, Maria; Marshall, Chloë R.; Stavrakaki, Stavroula – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2020
Background: Children with dyslexia and/or developmental language disorder (hereafter children with DDLD) have been reported to retrieve fewer words than their typically developing (TD) peers in semantic fluency tasks. It is not known whether this retrieval difficulty can be attributed to the semantic structure of their lexicon being poor or,…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Language Impairments, Developmental Disabilities, Semantics
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Byom, Lindsey; Turkstra, Lyn S. – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2017
Background: Social communication problems are common in adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI), particularly problems in spoken discourse. Social communication problems are thought to reflect underlying cognitive impairments. Aims: To measure the contribution of two cognitive processes, executive functioning (EF) and theory of mind (ToM), to the…
Descriptors: Head Injuries, Brain, Adults, Cognitive Processes