Leah L Kapa
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Kapa L
J Speech Lang Hear Res
. 2025 Mar;
:1-13.
PMID: 40073437
Purpose: The goal of this study was to examine potential mediators of the relationship between developmental language disorder (DLD) status and executive function performance. Method: Participants included preschoolers, of whom...
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Erikson J, Alt M, Pyarelal A, Kapa L
Lang Speech Hear Serv Sch
. 2024 Dec;
56(1):118-141.
PMID: 39656993
Purpose: This study examined science achievement; science vocabulary knowledge; and the relationship between science vocabulary, language skills, and science achievement in school-age children with language/literacy disorders (LLDs) and typical language...
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Kapa L, Mettler H
J Speech Lang Hear Res
. 2024 Aug;
67(9):3081-3093.
PMID: 39110814
Purpose: Our goal was to compare statistical learning abilities between preschoolers with developmental language disorder (DLD) and peers with typical development (TD) by assessing their learning of two artificial grammars....
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Kapa L
J Speech Lang Hear Res
. 2021 Feb;
64(2):628-634.
PMID: 33555946
Purpose This research note addresses whether task administration variations can improve Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS) performance in preschoolers with developmental language disorder (DLD). Method Participants included preschoolers with DLD...
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Kapa L, Meyers-Denman C, Plante E, Doubleday K
Am J Speech Lang Pathol
. 2020 Sep;
29(4):2082-2096.
PMID: 32997549
Purpose Enhanced Conversational Recast treatment is an effective intervention for remediating expressive grammatical deficits in preschool-age children with developmental language disorder, but not all children respond equally well. In this...
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Kapa L, Erikson J
J Speech Lang Hear Res
. 2020 Jun;
63(7):2293-2307.
PMID: 32546080
Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between executive functioning and word learning among preschoolers with and without developmental language disorder (DLD). Method Forty-one preschool-age children...
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Kapa L, Erikson J
Semin Speech Lang
. 2019 Jul;
40(4):243-255.
PMID: 31311051
Although results vary across individual studies, a large body of evidence suggests that children with developmental language disorder (DLD) have domain-general deficits in executive function compared with peers with typically...
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Kapa L, Colombo J
J Mem Lang
. 2017 Nov;
76:237-252.
PMID: 29129958
Previous research suggests executive function (EF) advantages among bilinguals compared to monolingual peers, and these advantages are generally attributed to experience controlling two linguistic systems. However, the possibility that the...
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Kapa L, Plante E, Doubleday K
J Speech Lang Hear Res
. 2017 Jul;
60(8):2170-2184.
PMID: 28724132
Purpose: The first goal of this research was to compare verbal and nonverbal executive function abilities between preschoolers with and without specific language impairment (SLI). The second goal was to...
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Kapa L, Plante E
Curr Dev Disord Rep
. 2015 Nov;
2(3):245-252.
PMID: 26543795
This paper provides a review of recent research on executive function abilities in children with specific language impairment (SLI). Across several studies, children with SLI are reported to perform worse...