TEMPORAL PROCESSING DEFICITS OF LANGUAGE-LEARNING IMPAIRED CHILDREN AMELIORATED BY TRAINING

Children with language-based learning impairments (LLIs) have major de ficits in their recognition of some rapidly successive phonetic elemen ts and nonspeech sound stimuli. In the current study, LLI children wer e engaged in adaptive training exercises mounted as computer ''games'' designed to drive improvements in their ''temporal processing'' skill s. With 8 to 16 hours of training during a 20-day period, LLI children improved markedly in their abilities to recognize brief and fast sequ ences of nonspeech and speech stimuli.