Auditory Temporal Processing Deficits in Children with Periventricular Brain Injury  

Oleh:

Downie, Andrea L.S. ; Jakobson, Lorna S. ; Frisk, Virginia ; Ushycky, Irene

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 80 no. 2 (2002), page 208-225.
Topik: auditory temporal processing; extremely low birthweight; prematurity; reading ability; phonological processing; working memory; structural equation modeling; periventricular brain injury
Fulltext: 80_02_Downie.pdf (138.91KB)

Isi artikel

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.

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