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Identifying Patterns of Processing Disorder in Six‐year‐old Children with Syntax Problems
Author(s) -
WREN CAROL T.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
international journal of language and communication disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.101
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1460-6984
pISSN - 1368-2822
DOI - 10.3109/13682828209012222
Subject(s) - syntax , comprehension , psychology , cognition , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , linguistics , philosophy , neuroscience
Summary This study analyzes the auditory and cognitive processing profiles of children with disorders of syntax. Six‐year‐olds who were identified, using the LARSP, as having two different patterns of imbalanced syntactic development, were given a battery of tests to assess receptive and expressive processes related to grammatical development. These groups were found to differ significantly in terms of their profiles on tests of discrimination, comprehension, memory, sequencing and rule application of linguistic information. The study concludes that syntax disorders in children are not isolated problems; rather they exist within a matrix of cognitive processing skills which vary along with the type of syntactic profile. Implications of the research for diagnosis and remediation are discussed.