Temporal processing deficits of language-learning impaired children ameliorated by training.
Children with language-based learning impairments (LLIs) have major deficits in their recognition of some rapidly successive phonetic elements and nonspeech sound stimuli. In the current study, LLI children were engaged in adaptive training exercises mounted as computer "games" designed to drive improvements in their "temporal processing" skills. With 8 to 16 hours of training during a 20-day period, LLI children improved markedly in their abilities to recognize brief and fast sequences of nonspeech and speech stimuli.
W. M. Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0732, USA.
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D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000628:therapy*; D007808:Language Therapy; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D012984:Software; D013067:Speech Perception; D018910:Video Games