Des interactions enrichies qui soutiennent le développement du langage : effets à court et moyen terme (6 mois) d’une guidance parentale logopédique

in ANAE : Approche Neuropsychologique des Apprentissages chez l'Enfant (2011), 112-113

The aim of parent based language intervention is to help parents of children with language disorders to play a main part in their child’s linguistic development by adjusting the speech addressed to them ... [more ▼]

The aim of parent based language intervention is to help parents of children with language disorders to play a main part in their child’s linguistic development by adjusting the speech addressed to them. This study focuses on the efficiency of our intervention methods and of indirect therapy. We analyze four dyads filmed at three different points in time: 1) before the intervention;2) directly after the sessions with the speech therapists; 3) six months later. Each film was transcribed and analyzed. The results confirm that parental based language intervention induces long-term changes in the parents’ behavior. [less ▲]

Sensibilité et spécificité du CHildhood EXecutive functioning Inventory (CHEXI) chez des enfants avec troubles attentionnels

in ANAE : Approche Neuropsychologique des Apprentissages chez l'Enfant (2011), 115

Thorell and Nyberg (2008) have recently developed the Childhood Executive Functioning Inventory (CHEXI), a new rating inventory of executive functioning for children that can be divided into four a priori ... [more ▼]

Thorell and Nyberg (2008) have recently developed the Childhood Executive Functioning Inventory (CHEXI), a new rating inventory of executive functioning for children that can be divided into four a priori subscales: working memory, planning, inhibition, and regulation The major goals of our study is to present a French adaptation of this questionnaire and to discuss its clinical interests in terms of sensibility and specificity with children with attentional deficits. [less ▲]

Le fonctionnement de la mémoire à court terme auditive-vocale dans le syndrome de Down : Implications pour le modèle de mémoire de travail

in ANAE : Approche Neuropsychologique des Apprentissages chez l'Enfant (1996), 8(4-5), 137-147

Since the end of the sixties, number of studies have put in obviousness that the short-term memory span of mentally retarded subjects remains largely below the level expected regarding their mental age ... [more ▼]

Since the end of the sixties, number of studies have put in obviousness that the short-term memory span of mentally retarded subjects remains largely below the level expected regarding their mental age and their chronological age. Mackenzie and Hulme (1987) and Hulme and Mackenzie (1992), for example, showed that verbal short-term memory abilities of mentally retarded subjects do not develop at the same rate than other cognitives aspects. These results provide important information on the development of memory span in those subjects but do not provide information on the functioning of the different components of their verbal short-term memory. We conducted several experiments in order to supply with this deficit and to describe the functioning of the verbal short-term memory in a group of Down's syndrome subjects. Our data put in obviousness the similarity of verbal short-term memory's functioning in Down's syndrome subjects and in normal children (phonological similarity effect and word length effect). The absence of a significant correlation between articulation rate and memory span in Down's syndrome people (like in less than 6 years old normal children, see Gathercole et al., 1993, 1994) leads us to discuss a central point of the working memory model (Baddeley, 1986). [less ▲]