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

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

2022

Publisher

Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics

Language

English

College

David O. McKay School of Education

Department

Communication Disorders

University Standing at Time of Publication

Adjunct Faculty

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