Naslov
Temporal processing and literacy

Autori
Ivšac, Jasmina ; Vancaš, Mirjana

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
IASCL -SRCLD 2002 / Miller, Jon F. - Madison (WI) : University of Wisconsin -Madison, 2002

Skup
Joint conference of the IX international congress for the study of child language and the symposium on research in child language disorders

Mjesto i datum
Madison (WI), Sjedinjene Američke Države, 16.07.2002. - 21.07.2002

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
vremenska obrada; jezične vještine; čitanje i pisanje; pismenost
(temporal processing; language skills; reading and writing; literacy)

Sažetak
Up to date research of temporal processing is numerous but all the used methods and procedures are quite demanding (Tallal, 1980 ; Kail & Hall, 1997).Trying to avoid those reyuirements and to ease the research we designed a device specially for the purpose. The goal of this work is to get some insight into temporal processing speed of simple acoustic and visual stimuli and their relation to language skills. Literature has described that children with language difficulties also have difficulties in the field of temporal processing. Therefore, our idea is that forcoming results could contribute for the diagnostic purposes. A small device was designed for testing and training visual and auditive attention and also for the temporal processing purpose. The device enables investigating visual and auditive processing separately, but the basic principle is the same: two short stimuli were presented to the subject following one another. As a processing speed measure we udes the shortest interval that certain child reached in the first minute of testing, and also the shortest interval during the whole testing period of processing visual and acoustic stimuli. Measures of literacy - reading speed, reading comprehension and success in native language (croatian) were correlated with the performance in auditive and visual processing. Statistical analysis of the results showed the following: high correlation between all the variables that concern visual processing and variables that describe the performance on the auditive processing. This result suggests that we can talk about the existence of one general temporal processing factor. There is also a significant correlation between auditive processing variables and performance in reading measures as it was expected. Correlation between the visual processing and reading skills was not found. Once the children automatize reading (our 60 subjects were third grade pupils, aged from 8-10 years, recruited from regular primary schools) they do not rely on visual control. From this point they start to use language knowledge as a dominant strategy in reading. Concerning the present results it seems possible to assume that temporal processing speed carries the main thing later, in performance on language tasks and also in reading and writing tasks.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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