Auditory temporal processing deficits in children with periventricular brain injury.

Autor: Downie AL; Department of Psychology, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. andrea.downie@sickkids.ca, Jakobson LS, Frisk V, Ushycky I
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Brain and language [Brain Lang] 2002 Feb; Vol. 80 (2), pp. 208-25.
DOI: 10.1006/brln.2001.2594
Abstrakt: The present study investigated whether auditory temporal processing deficits are related to the presence and/or the severity of periventricular brain injury and the reading difficulties experienced by extremely low birthweight (ELBW: birthweight <1000 g) children. Results indicate that ELBW children with mild or severe brain lesions obtained significantly lower scores on a test requiring auditory temporal order judgments than ELBW children without periventricular brain injury or children who were full-term. Structural equation modeling indicated that a model in which auditory temporal processing deficits predicted speech sound discrimination and phonological processing ability provided a better fit for the data than did a second model, which hypothesized that auditory temporal processing deficits are associated with poor reading abilities through a working memory deficit. These findings suggest that an impairment in auditory temporal processing may contribute to the reading difficulties experienced by ELBW children.
(Copyright 2002 Elsevier Science (USA).)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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