Working Memory in Specific Language Impairment | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Ear, Nose, Throat and Allied Sciences | ||
| Article 45, Volume 25, Issue 25, March 2024, Pages 1-9 PDF (358.83 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejentas.2023.243804.1685 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Ahmed Elsayed Gelaney* 1; Eman M Mostafa2 | ||
| 1Phoniatrics Unit, Otolaryngology department, Sohag faculty of Medicine, Sohag unversity | ||
| 2Phoniatrics unit, Otolaryngeology department, Sohag Faculty of medicine | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Aim: To study the relation between working memory deficits and development of language in patients with Phonological programming Specific Language Impairment (SLI), Lexical syntactic SLI and Phonological syntactic SLI. Patients and Methods: This study is a retrospective study conducted on a series of Specific Language Impairment children (n=94). Inclusion criteria: children age range between 2.5- 6.5 years, native Arabic speakers with history of speech and language delays and nonverbal IQ ≥ 85. Exclusion criteria: children with mental retardation, hearing impairment and any psychiatric disorders such as autism. Investigating working memory in SLI children was done and comparing the results with a control group (n=33). Results: There was statistically significance difference between different types of SLI and the control group in verbal working memory (P value< 0.001). Conclusion: Verbal working memory abilities and language development are associated especially to Lexical syntactic SLI, Phonological syntactic SLI rather than to Phonological programming SLI. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Language; nonverbal; verbal; working memory | ||
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