Spoken Word Learning in Children With Developmental Language Disorder or Dyslexia.

ABSTRACT: Purpose Word learning difficulties have been documented in multiple studies involving children with dyslexia and developmental language disorder (DLD; see also specific language impairment). However, no previous studies have directly contrasted word learning in these two frequently co-occurring disorders. We examined word learning in second-grade students with DLD-only and dyslexia-only as compared to each other, peers with both disorders (DLD + dyslexia), and peers with typical development. We hypothesized that children with dyslexia-only and DLD-only would show differences in word learning due to differences in their core language strengths and weaknesses. Method Children (N = 244) were taught eight novel pseudowords paired with unfamiliar objects. The teaching script included mul

SUBMITTER: Adlof SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8632516 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature