title: Effect of preschool working memory, language, and narrative abilities on inferential comprehension at school-age in children with spina bifida myelomeningocele and typically developing children.
abstract: Children with spina bifida myelomeningocele (SBM) are more likely to display a pattern of good-decoding/poor comprehension than their neurologically intact peers. The goals of the current study were to (1) examine the cognitive origins of one of the component skills of comprehension, bridging inferences, from a developmental perspective and (2) to test the effects of those relations on reading comprehension achievement. Data from a sample of children with SBM and a control group (n = 78) who participated in a longitudinal study were taken from age 36-month and 9.5-year time points. A multiple mediation model provided evidence that three preschool cognitive abilities (working memory/inhibitory control, oral comprehension, narrative recall), could partially explain the relation between group and bridging inference skill. A second mediation model supported that each of the 36-month abilities had an indirect effect on reading comprehension through bridging inference skill. Findings contribute to an understanding of both typical and atypical comprehension development, blending theories from the developmental, cognitive, and neuropsychological literature.
authors: Deparment of Psychology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario.
authors: Meredith
authors: M
authors: Pike
authors: Paul
authors: P
authors: Swank
authors: Heather
authors: H
authors: Taylor
authors: Susan
authors: S
authors: Landry
authors: Marcia A
authors: MA
authors: Barnes
mesh_terms: D000161:Acoustic Stimulation; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D032882:Comprehension / Q000502:physiology*; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D008591:Meningomyelocele / Q000150:complications*; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011932:Reading; D016135:Spinal Dysraphism / Q000150:complications*
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