Attentional Control in Preschool Children with Specific Language Impairment

10 INTRODUCTION 12 Attention and Language Learning under the General Learning Mechanisms Framework 14 Attention and Children with SLI 15 Summary of Findings 21 Attention as a Limited Capacity 22 Attention Skills by Subdomain 23 Attention Skills by Modality 24 Implications for Current Study 25 Purpose of Current Study 26 The Specific Hypotheses 39 METHODS 41 Participants 41 Reliability Measures 44 Procedures 45 Task 1: Simple RT 46 Task 2. Susceptibility to Distraction 47 Task 3. Inhibitory Control/Updating 52 RESULTS 57 Simple RT 57 Susceptibility to Distraction: TD vs. SLI 58 Inhibitory Control: TD vs. SLI 63 Updating: TD vs. SLI .. 65 Correlational Analyses 67