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Publication Date: 2022-Oct
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Inhibition in Preschool Children at Risk of Developmental Language Disorder
Thomas, Sheila; Shipp, Nicholas J.; Ryder, Nuala
Child Language Teaching and Therapy, v38 n3 p241-253 Oct 2022
It has been hypothesised that executive function deficits, specifically inhibition difficulties, may play a central role in Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). The presented study compared the response inhibition abilities of typically developing preschool children, with monolingual and bilingual preschool children who had already been classed as being at risk of developing DLD. A non-word repetition test and two inhibition tasks were used along with a prospective memory task. The results indicated that children at risk of DLD performed significantly worse than typically developing children on all tasks. The findings suggest that children at risk of DLD are impaired in response inhibition. Educational and therapeutic implications are discussed.
Descriptors: Inhibition, Preschool Children, At Risk Students, Developmental Disabilities, Language Impairments, Executive Function, Bilingualism, Task Analysis, Diagnostic Tests
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