Communication Sciences and Disorders Publications
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.
