Short-term memory (STM) constraints in children with specific language impairment (SLI): Are there differences between receptive and expressive SLI?

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 578-595

  Nickisch, Andreas ^a   Von Kries, Rüdiger ^a  

^a Kinderzentrum Munich ^*

Author keywords

Digit span; Nonword repetition; Short term memory; Specific language impairment; Visual short term memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPRESSIVE LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECEPTIVE LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 66649090427     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2008/07-0150)     Document Type: Article

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