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Variability and language learning disabilities: An information processing perspective
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Variability and language learning disabilities: An information processing perspective ...
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Abstract:
Efforts to understand language learning disabilities have generally used information processing as a theoretical orientation. However, it is often difficult to identify which aspects of information processing cause problems in learning language. In addition, information processing approaches are often unable to account for either the variability in the performance of an individual child, or variability among children from similar cultural and linguistic backgrounds. In this chapter, we focus first on the concept of a limited capacity processor as a paradigm for understanding some of the variation observed within and among children. Identifying factors that compete for a child’s limited processing abilities can help to clarify goals and determine intervention procedures in the face of variable performance. Second, we suggest that an important component of language processing is the child’s ability to construct and hold in mind the momentary mental representations that underlie language expression and ...
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Cognition in children; Developmental psychology; Language acquisition; Learning disabilities
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d81c22kb https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D81C22KB
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