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REHABILITATING LANGUAGE DISORDERS BY IMPROVING SEQUENTIAL PROCESSING: A REVIEW.

Jerome Daltrozzo¹, Christopher M Conway¹, Gretchen N L Smith¹

¹Georgia State University.

The Journal of Macrotrends in Health and Medicine

|June 4, 2019

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Sequential processing (SP) is crucial for language processing (LP). Improving SP through targeted training may effectively rehabilitate various language impairments, offering a novel therapeutic approach.

Keywords:

Language Language Impairment Rehabilitation Sequential Processing Training

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Linguistics
Rehabilitation Science

Background:

Language processing (LP) is increasingly understood to depend on sequential processing (SP), the ability to discern temporal patterns.
Spoken language relies on ordered linguistic units governed by phonotactic and syntactic rules.
Impaired SP is a potential common factor across diverse language impairments.

Purpose of the Study:

To review evidence linking LP and SP.
To explore the role of SP deficits in language impairments.
To propose and evaluate SP-focused interventions for language rehabilitation.

Main Methods:

Literature review of studies on SP and LP in healthy and impaired populations.
Presentation of novel behavioral and neuroimaging (event-related potential) data.
Summary of brain plasticity principles and cognitive training effects.
Description of a novel SP training intervention for language remediation.

Main Results:

LP is strongly correlated with SP abilities in healthy adults.
Populations with language impairments (e.g., dyslexia, aphasia) exhibit SP deficits.
Cognitive training can enhance cognitive skills and lead to transfer effects.
SP training demonstrated improvements in both SP and LP mechanisms.

Conclusions:

SP is fundamental to LP, and deficits in SP contribute to language impairments.
SP training shows promise as a novel and effective intervention for language rehabilitation.
Targeting SP offers a new avenue for treating diverse language disorders.