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Compensation to Altered Auditory Feedback in Children With Developmental Language Disorder and Typical Development

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-6-2021

Journal

ASHAWire

Volume

64

Issue

6S

First Page

2363

Last Page

2376

URL with Digital Object Identifier

https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_JSLHR-20-00374

Abstract

Purpose

Developmental language disorder (DLD), an unexplained problem using and understanding spoken language, has been hypothesized to have an underlying auditory processing component. Auditory feedback plays a key role in speech motor control. The current study examined whether auditory feedback is used to regulate speech production in a similar way by children with DLD and their typically developing (TD) peers.

Method

Participants aged 6–11 years completed tasks measuring hearing, language, first formant (F1) discrimination thresholds, partial vowel space, and responses to altered auditory feedback with F1 perturbation.

Results

Children with DLD tended to compensate more than TD children for the positive F1 manipulation and compensated less than TD children in the negative shift condition.

Conclusion

Our findings suggest that children with DLD make atypical use of auditory feedback.

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