SHORT-TERM AND WORKING-MEMORY DIFFERENCES IN LANGUAGE LEARNING DISABLED AND NORMAL ADULTS/

Fifteen adults who reported a childhood history of speech-language and /or learning disability (L/LD) were tested on two verbal memory tasks. Their performance on sentence repetition and reading span measures wa s compared with that of a matched control group who reported no childh ood history of L/LD. Results indicated statistically significant group performance differences on both short-term and working memory tasks. This suggests that verbal memory difficulties may be a longterm compon ent of L/LD. (C) 1997 by Elsevier Science Inc.