Deficits in Coordinative Bimanual Timing Precision in Children With Specific Language Impairment.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Our objective was to delineate components of motor performance in specific language impairment (SLI); specifically, whether deficits in timing precision in one effector (unimanual tapping) and in two effectors (bimanual clapping) are observed in young children with SLI.

Method

Twenty-seven 4- to 5-year-old children with SLI and 21 age-matched peers with typical language development participated. All children engaged in a unimanual tapping and a bimanual clapping timing task. Standard measures of language and motor performance were also obtained.

Results

No group differences in timing variability were observed in the unimanual tapping task. However, compared with typically developing peers, children with SLI were more variable in their timing precision in the b

SUBMITTER: Vuolo J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5533552 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature