The importance of rapid auditory processing abilities to early language development: Evidence from converging methodologies
- 27 February 2002
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Developmental Psychobiology
- Vol. 40 (3), 278-292
- https://doi.org/10.1002/dev.10032
Abstract
The ability to process two or more rapidly presented, successive, auditory stimuli is believed to underlie successful language acquisition. Likewise, deficits in rapid auditory processing of both verbal and nonverbal stimuli are characteristic of individuals with developmental language disorders such as Specific Language Impairment. Auditory processing abilities are well developed in infancy, and thus such deficits should be detectable in infants. In the studies presented here, converging methodologies are used to examine such abilities in infants with and without a family history of language disorder. Behavioral measures, including assessments of infant information processing, and an EEG/event‐related potential (ERP) paradigm are used concurrently. Results suggest that rapid auditory processing skills differ as a function of family history and are predictive of later language outcome. Further, these paradigms may prove to be sensitive tools for identifying children with poor processing skills in infancy and thus at a higher risk for developing a language disorder. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Dev Psychobiol 40: 278–292, 2002 DOI 10.1002/dev.10032Keywords
Funding Information
- NICHD the and the (RO1-HD29419)
- Human Frontier Science Program
- Don and Linda Carter Foundation
- Elizabeth H. Solomon Center for Neurodevelopmental Research
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