NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILES OF CHILDREN DIAGNOSED AS SPECIFIC LANGUAGE-IMPAIRED WITH AND WITHOUT HYPERLEXIA

Citation
Mj. Cohen et al., NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL PROFILES OF CHILDREN DIAGNOSED AS SPECIFIC LANGUAGE-IMPAIRED WITH AND WITHOUT HYPERLEXIA, Archives of clinical neuropsychology, 12(3), 1997, pp. 223-229
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Psycology, Clinical",Psychology
ISSN journal
08876177
Volume
12
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
223 - 229
Database
ISI
SICI code
0887-6177(1997)12:3<223:NPOCDA>2.0.ZU;2-K
Abstract
This study compared the neuropsychological profiles of 46 children wit h Specific Language Impairment (SLI) and 16 children with SLI and Hype rlexia (SLI + H). The results indicated that the essential feature of Hyperlexia is Specific Language Impairment and not reading disability. Thus, Hyperlexia would be best conceptualized as a subgroup of Develo pmental Language Disorder rather than as a subgroup of Developmental D yslexia. Further; the SLI + H group exhibited significantly better dev eloped visual/spatial memory which, along with average visual perceptu al skills, appears to be the major contributing factor to their elevat ed word recognition and spelling ability Finally, it should be noted t hat both groups of children exhibited decreasing performance on tasks of immediate auditory/verbal memory as the language/semantic demands o f the memory task increased. This finding appears to be the result of a limited capacity for immediate verbal processing and not the result of a deficit in verbal learning and recall. (C) 1997 National Academy of Neuropsychology.