Psycholinguistic profiling of children with sluggish cognitive tempo
Keywords
Specific language impairment, developmental language disorder, sluggish cognitive tempo, comorbidity, attention disorder
Abstract
Language disorders are frequently comorbid with attention-deficit /hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT), a second attention disorder, may potentially explain some of the links between language disorders and ADHD. In this study we examined the psycholinguistic abilities of 207 children (mean age 7;10) with and without clinically significant levels of SCT symptoms to determine the degree to which symptoms of language disorder co-occur in cases of SCT. Analyses of children’s tense-marking, nonword repetition, and sentence recall indicated that deficits in these areas were not associated with SCT. Instead, SCT appears to be more closely aligned with features of social (pragmatic) communication disorder.
Original Publication Citation
Russell, K. M. H., Redmond, S. M., & Ash, A. C. (2022). Psycholinguistic profiling of children with sluggish cognitive tempo. Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699206.2022.2092422
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Hannig Russell, Kirsten M.; Redmond, Sean M.; and Ash, Andrea C., "Psycholinguistic profiling of children with sluggish cognitive tempo" (2022). Faculty Publications. 7220.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/7220
Document Type
Peer-Reviewed Article
Publication Date
2022
Publisher
Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics
Language
English
College
David O. McKay School of Education
Department
Communication Disorders
Copyright Status
HHS Public Access https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8939127/pdf/nihms-1785862.pdf
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