Mirror-drawing skill in children with Specific Language Impairment: Improving generalization by incorporating variability in the practice session

Desmottes, Lise; Maillart, Christelle; Meulemans, Thierry

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Mirror-drawing skill in children with Specific Language Impairment: Improving generalization by incorporating variability in the practice session

Desmottes, Lise; Maillart, Christelle; Meulemans, Thierry

2016 • In Child Neuropsychology: A Journal on Normal and Abnormal Development in Childhood and Adolescence

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Specific Language Impairment; Procedural learning; variability

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[en] This study aimed to investigate the procedural deficit hypothesis (PDH) in children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) by using a mirror-drawing task, a sensorimotor adaptation paradigm that does not involve sequence learning and has never before been used in SLI. Thirty school-aged children with SLI matched to 30 control children had to trace several figures seen only in mirror-reversed view in two learning sessions separated by a one-week delay. Two practice conditions were compared: a constant condition in which children had to trace the same figure throughout the learning trials, and a variable one in which they had to trace different figures in each trial. Results revealed a similar learning pattern between SLI and TD children in both practice conditions, suggesting that initial learning for a nonsequential procedural task is preserved in SLI. However, children with SLI generalized the mirror-drawing skill in the same way as control children only if there was variability in the way the material was trained (variable practice). No significant schedule effects were observed in the control group.

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Theoretical & cognitive psychology

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Desmottes, Lise ; Université de Liège > Département de Logopédie > Logopédie clinique

Maillart, Christelle ; Université de Liège > Département de Logopédie > Logopédie clinique

Meulemans, Thierry ; Université de Liège > Département de Psychologie > Neuropsychologie

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English

Title :

Mirror-drawing skill in children with Specific Language Impairment: Improving generalization by incorporating variability in the practice session

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April 2016

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Child Neuropsychology: A Journal on Normal and Abnormal Development in Childhood and Adolescence

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0929-7049

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1744-4136

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Psychology Press Taylor & Francis, Lisse, Netherlands

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F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]

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