Impairments in speech and nonspeech sound categorization in children with dyslexia are driven by temporal processing difficulties

Research in Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 593-603

  Vandermosten, Maaike ^a,b   Boets, Bart ^a,b   Luts, Heleen ^a,b   Poelmans, Hanne ^a,b   Wouters, Jan ^b   Ghesquière, Pol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b KU LEUVEN UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Auditory temporal processing; Children; Development; Dyslexia; Speech perception

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; SOUND DETECTION; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH THERAPY; STEADY STATE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ARTICULATION DISORDERS; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; MALE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPEECH; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 79851515391     PISSN: 08914222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ridd.2010.12.015     Document Type: Article

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