Comprehending complex sentences in children with specific developmental language

Abstract

Capability of understanding complex verbal requests was tested using the fifth series of Token Test (TT-V) on the group of children (5 to 10 years of age) with developmental dysphasia where comprehension deficits weren't included in the diagnosis (SLI:N=30, Mean IQP=103,7) with the purpose to establish whether production difficulties in children with developmental specific language impairment (SLI) cover the receptive deficit and subsequently compared with comparable group of children of the typical development (TD: N=36). Those groups were extremely and significantly different (M SLI =8,8, M TD=15,6, t=-7.000, df=64, p=0,001, Kohen's d=1.73), while even less than one-third of the children with SLI achieved results within 1 STD of the corresponding age group of TD children. Qualitative analysis of certain items TT-V was performed and those items which better differentiate younger (5.0-5.11 yrs) and older (6-10 yrs) TD children were isolated, as well as those that appeared to be the most challenging for the children with SLI. Despite the overall robustness of TT-V as the technique within the context of linguistic analysis, the obtained data are directed towards some of the potential sources of comprehension deficits in our population of children with SLI older than 5 years.

S ciljem da se utvrdi da li kod dece sa specifičnim razvojnim jezičkim poremećajem (RJP) teškoće produkcije prepokrivaju receptivni deficit, u grupi dece sa razvojnom disfazijom kod koje smetnje razumevanja nisu bile obuhvaćene dijagnozom (n=30, AS IQm=103,7) uzrasta 5 do 10 godina) ispitana je sposobnost razumevanja složenih verbalnih naloga petom serijom Token testa (TT-V) i upoređena sa komparabilnom grupom dece tipičnog razvoja (TR, n=36). Grupe su se izrazito i značajno razlikovale (AS RJP =8,8, AS TR=15,6, t=-7.000, df=64, p=0,001, Koenov δ=1,73), dok je čak ispod jedne trećine dece sa RJP postiglo rezultat u okviru 1 SD odgovarajuće uzrasne grupe dece TR. Urađena je kvalitativna analiza pojedinih ajtema TT-V i izdvojeni oni koji bolje razlikuju mlađu (5;0-5;11 god.) i stariju (6-10 god.) decu tipičnog razvoja, kao i oni sa kojima deca sa RJP imaju najnaglašenije teškoće. Uprkos ukupnoj grubosti TT-V kao tehnike u kontekstu jezičke analize, dobijeni podaci usmeravaju ka nekim mogućim izvorima smetnji razumevanja u našoj populaciji dece sa RJP starije od 5 godina.