A follow-up study on Italian late talkers: Development of language, short-term memory, phonological awareness, impulsiveness, and attention

This follow-up study compares cognitive and language aspects of a group of Italian children ages 4–6 years, who had shown delayed expressive language abilities at 24 months of age (late talkers), with those of a group of children with a history of normal expressive language development (average talkers). Children were given a battery of cognitive–neuropsychological tests to assess grammatical comprehension, vocabulary development, verbal short-term memory, phonological awareness, planning and visuomotor coordination, and attention and impulsiveness. No differences were found in the results between the two groups in the domains of attention, impulsiveness, and visuomotor planning, but in the domain of syntactic competence late talkers developed particular difficulties in the comprehension of passive negative sentences compared to average talkers. Late talkers also performed significantly worse on the nonword repetition task, which measures abilities closely connected with verbal short-term memory and phonological awareness.

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A follow-up study on Italian late talkers: Development of language, short-term memory, phonological awareness, impulsiveness, and attention

Applied Psycholinguistics ◽

10.1017/s0142716407070087 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 28 (01) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

LAURA D'ODORICO ◽

ALESSANDRA ASSANELLI ◽

FABIA FRANCO ◽

VALENTINA JACOB

Keyword(s):

Phonological Awareness ◽

Short Term Memory ◽

Short Term ◽

Term Memory ◽

Follow Up Study ◽

Late Talkers ◽

Development Of Language

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Intelligence quotient, short-term memory and study habits as academic achievement predictors of elementary school: A follow-up study

Studies In Educational Evaluation ◽

10.1016/j.stueduc.2021.101020 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 70 ◽

pp. 101020

Author(s):

Alberto Quilez-Robres ◽

Alejandro González-Andrade ◽

Zaira Ortega ◽

Sandra Santiago-Ramajo

Keyword(s):

Academic Achievement ◽

Elementary School ◽

Intelligence Quotient ◽

Short Term Memory ◽

Study Habits ◽

Short Term ◽

Term Memory ◽

Follow Up Study

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Assessing phonological awareness in Italian children with and without developmental dyslexia: The contribution of a new pseudo-word blending task

School Psychology International ◽

10.1177/0143034318791214 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 39 (5) ◽

pp. 470-489

Author(s):

Maria Chiara Fastame ◽

Anna Cardis ◽

Daniela Callai

Keyword(s):

Phonological Awareness ◽

Developmental Dyslexia ◽

Primary Schools ◽

Short Term Memory ◽

Analysis Of Covariance ◽

Short Term ◽

Reading Tests ◽

Term Memory ◽

Transparent Orthography ◽

Italian Children

The current study investigated the capacity of a new test assessing phonological awareness to detect differences between Italian children with and without developmental dyslexia. Specifically, the task involves blending of a list of pseudo-words, and excludes lexical knowledge as a source of task performance. Fifty-four third to fifith Italian graders were presented a battery of tests assessing phonological awareness, reading, writing, and verbal short-term memory abilities. A multivariate analysis of covariance, with age as a covariate, revealed that proficient readers outperformed students with developmental dyslexia in all cognitive measures considered, except verbal short-term memory. Moreover, high concordance was found between the new pseudo-word blending task, and well-known word blending, writing, and reading tests, respectively. In conclusion, the new phonological awareness task seems to be a useful tool for the detection of poor blending abilities of Italian children and thus it could be used to screen phonological awareness in primary schools. Implications for school psychology research and practice, including across linguistic contexts, are emphasized; for example, the new blending task could aid discrimination of proficient and dyslexic readers speaking other languages characterized by a transparent orthography, such as Greek, Spanish, Turkish.

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The Link Between Verbal Short-Term Memory and Anomia Treatment Gains

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology ◽

10.1044/2019_ajslp-18-0176 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 28 (3) ◽

pp. 1039-1052

Author(s):

Reva M. Zimmerman ◽

JoAnn P. Silkes ◽

Diane L. Kendall ◽

Irene Minkina

Keyword(s):

Short Term Memory ◽

Controlled Trial ◽

Treatment Success ◽

Linear Regression Models ◽

Language Performance ◽

Short Term ◽

Term Memory ◽

Treatment Gains ◽

Post Hoc

Purpose A significant relationship between verbal short-term memory (STM) and language performance in people with aphasia has been found across studies. However, very few studies have examined the predictive value of verbal STM in treatment outcomes. This study aims to determine if verbal STM can be used as a predictor of treatment success. Method Retrospective data from 25 people with aphasia in a larger randomized controlled trial of phonomotor treatment were analyzed. Digit and word spans from immediately pretreatment were run in multiple linear regression models to determine whether they predict magnitude of change from pre- to posttreatment and follow-up naming accuracy. Pretreatment, immediately posttreatment, and 3 months posttreatment digit and word span scores were compared to determine if they changed following a novel treatment approach. Results Verbal STM, as measured by digit and word spans, did not predict magnitude of change in naming accuracy from pre- to posttreatment nor from pretreatment to 3 months posttreatment. Furthermore, digit and word spans did not change from pre- to posttreatment or from pretreatment to 3 months posttreatment in the overall analysis. A post hoc analysis revealed that only the less impaired group showed significant changes in word span scores from pretreatment to 3 months posttreatment. Discussion The results suggest that digit and word spans do not predict treatment gains. In a less severe subsample of participants, digit and word span scores can change following phonomotor treatment; however, the overall results suggest that span scores may not change significantly. The implications of these findings are discussed within the broader purview of theoretical and empirical associations between aphasic language and verbal STM processing.

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Contributions of phonological awareness, phonological short-term memory, and rapid automated naming, toward decoding ability in students with mild intellectual disability

Research in Developmental Disabilities ◽

10.1016/j.ridd.2012.12.005 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 34 (3) ◽

pp. 1090-1099 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Amanallah Soltani ◽

Samsilah Roslan

Keyword(s):

Intellectual Disability ◽

Phonological Awareness ◽

Short Term Memory ◽

Mild Intellectual Disability ◽

Short Term ◽

Term Memory ◽

Decoding Ability

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Abstract 115: One-Year Outcomes in Individual Domains of the Cerebral Performance Category Extended

Circulation ◽

10.1161/circ.138.suppl_2.115 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 138 (Suppl_2) ◽

Author(s):

Katharyn L Flickinger ◽

Melissa J Repine ◽

Stephany Jaramillo ◽

Allison C Koller ◽

Margo Holm ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Cardiac Arrest ◽

Return To Work ◽

Short Term Memory ◽

Demographic Data ◽

Cerebral Performance Category ◽

Logical Thinking ◽

Short Term ◽

Performance Category ◽

Term Memory

Introduction: Cognitive and physical impairments are common in cardiac arrest survivors. Global measures including the Modified Rankin Scale (mRS), Cerebral Performance Category (CPC) and the 10-domain CPC-Extended (CPC-E) tend to improve over 1 year. The CPC-E is scored from 1-5 with higher scores signifying greater impairment. However, with the CPC-E, individual functional domains (alertness, logical thinking, attention, motor skills, short-term memory, basic and complex activities of daily living (ADL), mood, fatigue, and return to work) may recover at different rates. Hypothesis: We hypothesized that patients would have recovery in all domains of the CPC-E at 1 year after index cardiac arrest. Methods: A prospective cohort study of cardiac arrest survivors was conducted between 2/1/16 and 5/31/17. Chart review was done for baseline demographic data. Outcome measures including mRS, CPC, and CPC-E scores were assessed at discharge, 3 months, 6 months, and 1 year. We defined recovery of a CPC-E domain when >90% of patients had scores of 1-2 in that domain. Results: Of 71 subjects, 35 completed the CPC-E at discharge, 35 at 3 months, 25 at 6 months and 31 at 1 year. The most common reasons for exclusion were patient declined or were lost to follow up. The majority (N=37; 52%) were female, with a mean (SD) age of 58(17) years. Most arrests occurred out of hospital (N= 49; 69%), 27 (38%) had a shockable rhythm and the majority (N=37; 54%) were discharged home. CPC-E domains of alertness (N=35, 100%) logical thinking (N=35; 100%), and attention (N=33; 94%) recovered by hospital discharge. BADLs were recovered by 3 months (N=33; 94%). The majority of patients (N=24;77%) experienced slight-to-no disability or symptoms (mRS 0-2 / CPC 1-2) at 1 year follow up. CPC-E short term memory (67%), motor (87%), mood (87%), fatigue (13%), complex ADL (74%), and return to work (55%) did not recover fully by 1 year. Conclusions: In survivors of cardiac arrest, CPC-E domains of alertness, logical thinking, and attention recover rapidly, while domains of short term memory, motor, mood, fatigue, complex ADL and ability to return to work are chronically impaired 1 year after arrest. Interventions to improve recovery in these domains are needed.

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