Inhibition in Preschool Children at Risk of Developmental Language Disorder

Sheila  Thomas; Nicholas Shipp; Nuala Ryder

doi:10.1177/02656590221111341

Inhibition in Preschool Children at Risk of Developmental Language Disorder

Sheila Thomas, Nicholas Shipp, Nuala Ryder

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It has been hypothesised that executive function deficits, specifically inhibition difficulties, may play a central role in Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). The presented study compared the response inhibition abilities of typically developing preschool children, with monolingual and bilingual preschool children who had already been classed as being at risk of developing DLD. A non-word repetition test and two inhibition tasks were used along with a prospective memory task. The results indicated that children at risk of DLD performed significantly worse than typically developing children on all tasks. The findings suggest that children at risk of DLD are impaired in response inhibition. Educational and therapeutic implications are discussed.

Original language	English
Number of pages	13
Journal	Child Language Teaching and Therapy
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/02656590221111341
Publication status	Published - 5 Jul 2022

Keywords

Developmental Language Disorder
Inhibition
Bilingualism
Preschool children
Specific Language impairment
preschool children
developmental language disorder
inhibition
bilingualism

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