Nonword Repetition and Word Learning in Children with Specific Language Impairment

Children with specific language impairment (SLI) are notorious for inconsistent use of grammatical morphemes, as well as a small vocabulary. This lack of vocabulary is linked to their difficulty in learning new words, which requires a strong phonological memory. Tasks of nonword repetition call upon this same skill. This overlap in skills suggests a strong relationship between the two tasks. The current study explores the relationship between nonword repetition performance and novel word learning abilities in preschool-aged children with SLI as compared to their typically developing (TD) age-matched peers. Nine children with SLI and nine TD children completed a nonword repetition test (NRT) and a novel word learning task. Analysis of the relationship between the two tasks revealed few significant meaningful correlations for TD children and no significant correlations for those with SLI. The findings suggest that tasks of nonword repetition and encoding in word learning may not be tapping into the same mechanism, and that the relationship between the two is not as strong as first assumed

Future directions for Northeast Asian regionalism

행사명 : U.S.–Korea Academic Symposiu

The National Congress of Mothers and Parent- Teacher Associations

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Women, Justice, and Judgment

Symposium: Seventh Annual Conference of the National Association of Women Judges: Conference Presentation

Structure-property relationships in low-temperature adhesives

Adhesive materials of aliphatic polyester, linear hydroxyl end-capped polybutadienes, or SBS block copolymers are studied with the objective to replace conventional partially aromatic end-reactive polyester-isocyanate adhesives that have shown embrittlemen

Commencement address

Address to the graduating class of 1954 by John Schoff Millis, president of Western Reserve University

The effects of a 12 week aerobic bench stepping conditioning program on cardiorespiratory fitness and muscular leg strength in college women

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effects of a 12 week aerobic bench stepping conditioning program on maximum oxygen uptake, time on treadmill and muscular leg strength, measured by knee flexion and extension strength, on college women ranging in age from 18 to 25 years. Prior to a twelve week conditioning period subjects were assessed for maximum oxygen uptake (VO{dollar}\sb2{dollar} max) and time on treadmill (TOT) using a graded treadmill test. Muscular leg strength was measured using Bally\u27s Life Fitness Machines, averaging three maximum knee flexion lifts and extension lifts. These same measurements were repeated following the 12 week aerobic bench stepping conditioning program. Results of the analyses indicated that the aerobic bench stepping period was of sufficient intensity, frequency and duration to elicit favorable responses in VO{dollar}\sb2{dollar} max (ml{dollar}\cdot{dollar}kg{dollar}\sp{-1}\cdot{dollar}min{dollar}\sp{-1}{dollar}) (P {dollar}\u3c{dollar}.05), VO{dollar}\sb2{dollar} max (L{dollar}\cdot{dollar}min{dollar}\sp{-1}{dollar}) (P {dollar}\u3c{dollar}.05), and Knee Extension Strength (P {dollar}\u3c{dollar}.01). However, this training regimen did not favorably alter Time on Treadmill or Knee Flexion Strength