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Attentional Shifting in Preschool Children with Primary Language Impairment |
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Tammie Spaulding - University of CT
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2014 |
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| - Cognition/Language |
| - Language Impairment, 0-5 |
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Attentional shifting, the disengagement of attention from the current focus of interest and the moving of attentional focus to something new, is important for successful language acquisition. This investigation assessed attentional shifting in children with primary language impairment (PLI), a population characterized by poor language skills. Preschool children with PLI and their typical peers completed intra-dimensional and extra-dimensional shifting tasks under varying degrees of cognitive load. The results indicate that while children with PLI performed similar to their peers when load was low they performed significantly poorer than their peers when load increased. The results support limited capacity theory to characterize the difficulties encountered by children with PLI. |
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