Ou Lydia Liu, Brent Bridgeman, Lixiong Gu, Jun Xu, Nan Kong
Investigation of Response Changes in the GRE Revised General Test
Educational and psychological measurement
investigations cognitive processes underlying specific language impairment sli implicated deficits storage processing phonological information date abilities studied group children slito examine extent deficits immediate verbal shortterm working memory may cooccur group children slitwenty children aged 711 years sli completed comprehensive battery shortterm working memory well two phonological awareness tasksthe majority group deficits verbal shortterm working memory persisted general language abilities children taken account substantial minority showed deficits visuospatial shortterm memory impairments phonological awareness less markedthe data indicate dual deficits verbal shortterm working memory exceed criterial language abilities characteristic sli may plausibly underpin language learning difficulties experienced children