Procedure for Assessing Verbal Working Memory in Normal School-Age Children: Some Preliminary Data

1994 ◽  
Vol 79 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia A. Gaulin ◽  
Thomas F. Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Preliminary Data ◽  
Verbal Working Memory ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
Dynamic Processes ◽  
School Age ◽  
Normal Children ◽  
The Subject

A procedure for assessing children's recall of lexical items in the presence of a competing language task is described. The Competing Language Processing Task was designed to reflect the dynamic processes carried out in working memory during language comprehension and production by requiring that the subject hold words in temporary storage while analyzing and responding as true or false to statements. The development of the procedure is described and results of testing of 68 normal children ages 6, 8, 10, and 12 years are presented.

An Examination of Verbal Working Memory Capacity in Children With Specific Language Impairment

1999 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 1249-1260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Ellis Weismer ◽  
Julia Evans ◽  
Linda J. Hesketh
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
Specific Language Impairment ◽  
Working Memory Capacity ◽  
Verbal Working Memory ◽  
Memory Capacity ◽  
Word Recall ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
Specific Language

This study investigated verbal working memory capacity in children with specific language impairment (SLI). The task employed in this study was the Competing Language Processing Task (CLPT) developed by Gaulin and Campbell (1994). A total of 40 school-age children participated in this investigation, including 20 with SLI and 20 normal language (NL) age-matched controls. Results indicated that the SLI and NL groups performed similarly in terms of true/false comprehension items, but that the children with SLI evidenced significantly poorer word recall than the NL controls, even when differences in nonverbal cognitive scores were statistically controlled. Distinct patterns of word-recall errors were observed for the SLI and NL groups, as well as different patterns of associations between CLPT word recall and performance on nonverbal cognitive and language measures. The findings are interpreted within the framework of a limited-capacity model of language processing.

Internalising symptoms and verbal working memory in school‐age children: A processing efficiency analysis

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 828-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra M. Opris ◽  
Lavinia Cheie ◽  
Cristina M. Trifan ◽  
Laura Visu‐Petra
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Verbal Working Memory ◽  
Efficiency Analysis ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
School Age ◽  
Processing Efficiency

scholarly journals Oral language comprehension interventions in school-age children and adolescents with developmental language disorder: A systematic scoping review

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 239694152110104
Author(s):  
Sirpa Tarvainen ◽  
Kaisa Launonen ◽  
Suvi Stolt
Keyword(s):  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Oral Language ◽  
Language Disorder ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
School Age ◽  
Level Of Evidence ◽  
Intervention Efficacy

Background & aims Difficulties understanding spoken language are associated with several social and academic risks in school-age children and adolescents with developmental language disorder (DLD). Still, interventions for this group have received little attention, and there are no reviews focusing on oral language comprehension interventions in school-age children and adolescents. The objective of this systematic scoping review was to identify interventions targeting oral language comprehension in school-age children and adolescents with DLD. Further, the aim was to examine the focus of intervention, efficacy, and level of evidence of the identified interventions. The present review is the second part of a larger search on oral language comprehension interventions. The first review examined the same factors in children 8 years and younger. Methods A systematic scoping review of eight databases was conducted. Of the 2399 sourced articles, 12 met the inclusion criteria. Another 8 articles were identified through reference lists of sourced articles. In these 20 articles, containing 21 studies, 1661 children aged 5–16 years participated. The data were extracted and analysed, and the intervention focus, efficacy, and level of evidence were examined. Main contribution: In the interventions intended for school-age children and adolescents with DLD, three intervention foci were identified that targeted aspects of language and language processing, as well as modifying the communicative environment. Of the included studies, 57% reported positive results, 14% reported mixed results, and 29% reported no effects on oral language comprehension. The level of evidence varied. One can have high confidence in the results of 19%, moderate in 38%, and indicative confidence in 43% of the included studies. Conclusions Results of the present review suggest that there are a few interventions providing high confidence on the efficacy of improving oral language comprehension difficulties in school-age children and adolescents with DLD. Most interventions indicating efficacy provide moderate or indicative confidence in the results. More research with a high level of evidence is urgently needed. Most of the interventions indicating efficacy focused directly on language skills or modified the communicative environment. The results suggest that the therapy techniques focusing on improving language processing skills indicate efficacy only when they aim at compensating current language processing skills, not trying to improve them. Implications: The findings on different therapy techniques, their focus of intervention, efficacy, and level of evidence provide information for clinical practice and direct future investigations in this sparsely researched topic.

Working memory and fluid intelligence predict reading comprehension in school‐age children: a one‐year longitudinal study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Santiago Vernucci ◽  
Yesica Aydmune ◽  
María Laura Andrés ◽  
Débora Inés Burin ◽  
Lorena Canet‐Juric
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Fluid Intelligence ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
School Age ◽  
One Year

Entertaining mathematics presented by steam educational approach in teaching preschool and primary school age children

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanya Ivanova ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Educational Technologies ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
Mathematical Activity ◽  
School Age ◽  
Motivation To Learn ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Primary School Age ◽  
Interest And Motivation

The subject of this article is to clarify the connection between entertainment in Math lessons and educational STEAM technologies, which have the potential to motivate and stimulate the interest of preschool and primary school age in Math and their cognitive logical - mathematical activity. The article discusses the STEAM approach in its essence and teaching Maths using this method. The article also presents some educational technologies in fun Math, which allow children to discover for themselves through the methods of experimentation, exploration and experience, and this acquired independence leads children to an increased interest and motivation to learn.

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