Parent and self‐ratings of executive function in adolescents with specific language impairment

Abstract

The results of this study suggest that many adolescents with SLI have perceived impairments in executive functions that affect their performance in daily living. What remains to be determined is whether language and executive function impairments are co-morbid conditions or causally linked. Few assessment tools address the unique characteristics of adolescent clinical populations, including those with SLI. These findings suggest that self- and parent ratings of executive function may offer useful information for treatment planning. A greater understanding of the relation of executive functions to language has important implications for the timing and content of therapeutic intervention.

Habilidades de resolução de conflito em crianças com Distúrbio Específico de Linguagem

“…If this correlation is in fact confirmed, it can significantly influence the therapeutic interventions (6,7) . In both normal language development and SLI, there was no difference between the total score of children of 7 years old, which indicates that children of this age group resolve conflicts in the same manner.…”

“…It is not possible to say for sure the reason of this difference, but it probably occurred because the children of 8 years old have more experience with social situations as compared with children of 7 years old. normal language development in conflict resolution, due to language delay, processing difficulties, social/cognitive deficits, and the empathy difficulty that are characteristic of SLI (7,(12)(13)(14)(15)(16) . In fact, children with SLI had a total score significantly lower than children with normal language development using the Conflict Resolution Test Therefore, the findings of this Hence, it is likely that the evolution of social cognition skills and, consequently, the evolution of the ability to solve problems, are associated to individual social experiences in conjunction with the evolution of language and the ability to abstract thinking, both for children with SLI and children with normal language development.…”

“…For all these reasons, children with SLI experience just a few social experiences, which further contributes to the social deficits observed in this population (5) . The difficulty in performing tasks that require skills associated to executive functions and the difficulty of putting the caller in place, probably contribute to the social and cognitive deficits in children with SLI (6,7) . Conflict resolution skills can provide us with rich and varied information about the social, cognitive, and language skills of children with SLI.…”

Habilidades de resolução de conflito de crianças com distúrbio específico de linguagem

“…Portanto fazem parte das funções executivas habilidades como memória, atenção, categorização e planejamento hierárquico (Buiza-Navarrete et al, 2007;Hughes et al, 2008).…”

“…Lock (1997) Possivelmente, a dificuldade para realizar tarefas que exigem habilidades relacionadas às funções executivas e a dificuldade em se colocar no lugar do interlocutor, contribuem para o deficit sociocognitivo das crianças com DEL (Farmer, 2000;Carlson e Moses, 2001;Garfield et al, 2001;Farrant et al, 2006;Thirion-Marissiaux e Nader-Grosbois, 2008). O baixo desempenho de crianças com DEL em testes envolvendo funções executivas é vastamente relatado na literatura (Marton e Schwartz, 2003;Im-Bolter et al, 2006;Buiza-Navarrete et al, 2007;Hughes et al, 2008), porém não há um consenso com relação às habilidades de metarrepresentação dessa população. Uma vertente sugere que crianças com DEL não têm dificuldades em testes envolvendo TM (Perner et al, 1989;Ziatas et al, 1998;Colle et al, 2007), entretanto outros estudos sugerem um atraso no desenvolvimento da TM nessa população, justificado pelas dificuldades sintáticas características da patologia (Miller, 2004;Farrant et al, 2006;Farrar et al 2009).…”