Analysis of factors associated with pictures and words that affect naming in young children aged 4-8 (N.B. Secondary data analysis)

Semantic and Phonological Abilities in Children with Word Finding Difficulty: An Analysis of Secondary Data Abstract Word finding Difficulty (WFD) is defined as the inability to retrieve appropriate words in response to a stimulus or situation. Individuals with WFD exhibit wrong words with unexpected pauses and circumlocutions. The global prevalence of WFD is estimated to be 5% to 7% and is noted in 25% of the individuals who receive language support services. Only a few studies have explored the underlying causes of WFD. WFD has been attributed to impairment at several levels of cognitive processing that are associated with language production. The present study explored semantic, perceptual, and phonological abilities in WFD and typically-developing (TD) children. The end-points that were explored include picture naming accuracy, abilities in word-picture verification tasks (WPVT), semantic abilities (PJ tasks), and assessment of phonological ability (CNRep task). The study showed that children with TD exhibited significantly higher picture naming accuracy than their WFD counterparts (p>0.05). In TD children, a positive and significant correlation existed between naming accuracy and phonological ability as well as between naming accuracy and WPVT ability (p<0.05). On the contrary, in WFD children, there was a significant and positive correlation between naming accuracy with WPVT abilities only. Such findings suggest that WPVT was the sole determinant of word-finding accuracy in children with WFD. However, a…

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