Two experiments tested competing predictions about the nature of the irrelevant speech effect that were derived from Neath's (2000) feature model and from Salamé and Baddeley's (1982) phonological loop model. The first experiment examined the combined effects of irrelevant speech and articulatory suppression when target items were presented auditorily. Contrary to the suggestions of Neath, but ...

Severe speech disorders (SSD) are persistent specific deviations in the formation of components system (vocabulary, lexical and grammatical structure speech, phonemic processes, sound production, prosodic organization stream), which found children with preserved hearing normal intelligence [1]. Oral SSD is characterized by a strict limitation active vocabulary, agrammatisms, lack coherent skill...

Every day we communicate using complex linguistic and musical systems, yet these modern systems are the product of a much more ancient relationship with sound. When we speak, we communicate not only with the words we choose, but also with the patterns of sound we create and the movements that create them. From the natural rhythms of speech, to the precise timing characteristics of a consonant, ...

Developmental phonological disorders are a group of developmental language learn ing disorders of unknown aet iology, occurring at a phonological level, and man ifested in the use of abnormal speech patterns, by children, impairing their general intell igibility. This is one of a series of papers arising from an eY cacy study of a treatment model for developmental phonological disorders propose...

UNLABELLED Speech production involves the integration of auditory, somatosensory, and motor information in the brain. This article describes a model of speech motor control in which a feedforward control system, involving premotor and primary motor cortex and the cerebellum, works in concert with auditory and somatosensory feedback control systems that involve both sensory and motor cortical ar...

Differential Diagnosis of Speech Sound Disorders in Danish-speaking Children Children with speech sound disorders (SSD) are a heterogeneous group in terms of severity, underlying causes, speech characteristics and response to intervention. The correct identification and remediation of SSD is of particular importance since children with persisting SSD are placed at risk socially, academically an...

I’ll never forget the sunny spring day in Madison when Rhea and Peter spilled the beans about this book. What an incredible, wonderful surprise. It took two months before I could get my head around the reality of this gracious gesture and hunker down to begin my writing assignment. Rhea and Peter asked me to sketch the “arc” of my research to date. I’ve tried to capture that rather wobbly line ...

PURPOSE To undertake a community (nonclinical) study to describe the speech of preschool children who had been identified by parents/teachers as having difficulties "talking and making speech sounds" and compare the speech characteristics of those who had and had not accessed the services of a speech-language pathologist (SLP). METHOD Stage 1: Parent/teacher concern regarding the speech skill...

background:  speech is the most important aspect of development that related to central nervous system maturation in cognitive sensory motor domain. disorders of speech may disrupt other aspects of development. the study aimed to investigate the prevalence of speech disorders among primary schoolchildren in kermanshah during 2008-9. methods: six hundred schoolchildren from three educational reg...