  Le langage spontané des enfants prématurissimes : analyse du langage descriptif et informatif; Docquier, Laurence  ; Maillart, Christelle in Glossa (2010), 108 The limits of prematurity don’t stop moving back and very premature children with a very low birth weight survive. Since a short time studies have been conducted on the cognitive and language evolution of ... [more ▼] The limits of prematurity don’t stop moving back and very premature children with a very low birth weight survive. Since a short time studies have been conducted on the cognitive and language evolution of those children. This present study aims to determine the nature of language repercussions of extremely prematurity birth by focusing more particularly on spontaneous language. Language performances of 23 children born at less than 26 weeks of gestational age will be compared to the ones of 23 children born at term, paired by age (between 6 and 8 years old), sex and sociocultural level. Two tasks will be compared : a task of descriptive language (narration based on pictures) and a test of informative language in which the child will have to transmit some precise information on the realization of familiar actions. The children’s productions have been written down, then analysed from a lexical, syntactic and semantic point of view. Results show that the two groups of children do not differ in the task of descriptive language but differences emerge in the task of informative language. On lexical level the richness and variety of words used by premature children seem poorer than the ones used by children born at term. From the syntactic point of view the average length of utterances of premature children is inferior to the one of children born at term. At last the semantic analyses show that the premature children express less ideas and that the semantic content of the given ideas is less rich in comparison with the children born at term. In conclusion this study suggests that the discursive level of highly premature children mustn’t only be tested with descriptive tasks but also with informative tasks which seem more sensible to the specific weaknesses of that population. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 140 (7 ULg)Validation d’une batterie de tests évaluant le niveau de conscience phonologique d’enfants d’âge préscolaireGabriel, Audrey ; Poncelet, Martine in GLOSSA (2009), 107 Detailed reference viewed: 58 (9 ULg)Evaluation et rééducation de l’organisation sémantique chez l’enfant : étude d’un cas clinique; Maillart, Christelle in Glossa (2005), 94 Detailed reference viewed: 154 (11 ULg)Les déficits phonologiques des enfants francophones ayant des troubles spécifiques de développement du langage; Maillart, Christelle in Glossa (2004), 89 This study investigated the phonological expressive disorders of Frenchspeaking children with SLI. The main goal of this paper was to confirm whether children with SLI have limitations in phonological ... [more ▼] This study investigated the phonological expressive disorders of Frenchspeaking children with SLI. The main goal of this paper was to confirm whether children with SLI have limitations in phonological ability even when they are compared with normally-developing children matched by MLU and phonemic inventory size. This was demonstrated by Bortoloni and Leonard (2000), Orsolini et coll. (2001), and Aguilar-Mediavilla et coll. (2002), which obtained the most detailed results in this direction, but it was never tested in French language. The second goal of the paper is to find out whether the characteristics of the French language are reflected in the nature of the children’s phonological disorder. In order to test this, the spontaneous language of 16 children with SLI and of 16 control children matched on MLU and phonemic inventory size (NLD group) was analysed using different measures bearing on utterances, words, syllables, or phonemes. In both SLI and NLD groups, the children were distributed in two different subgroups, on the basis of their MLU and phonemic inventory size. The results supported a specific limitation in the phonological abilities of French children with SLI, as was already demonstrated for English, Hebrew, Italian, and Spanish-Catalan. However, two unexpected results were also obtained. Firstly, a significant difference between children with SLI and control children could only be found for older children (MLU above 3), not for younger children with MLU below 3. This was true for all measures. This finding stresses out the importance of having a development perspective and has to be confirmed with longitudinal design. Secondly, deficits were much more important at the phoneme level than at the syllable level. This can be explained by the fact that the French language has a very homogenous pronunciation of syllables, which makes them easier to segment. [less ▲] Detailed reference viewed: 114 (17 ULg)Le coût cognitif des processus orthographiques; Maillart, Christelle in Glossa (2004), 89 Detailed reference viewed: 145 (8 ULg)Evaluation de l'intérêt dévelopmental des outils informatisés dans la prise en charge d'handicapés mentaux et sociauxBorn, Michel in Glossa (1987), 6 Detailed reference viewed: 13 (3 ULg) |
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