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Clément S, Planchou C, Béland R, et al. Singing abilities in children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). Front Psychol. 2015;6:420doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00420.
Clément, S., Planchou, C., Béland, R., Motte, J., & Samson, S. (2015). Singing abilities in children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). Frontiers in psychology, 6420. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00420
Clément, Sylvain, et al. "Singing abilities in children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI)." Frontiers in psychology vol. 6 (2015): 420. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00420
Clément S, Planchou C, Béland R, Motte J, Samson S. Singing abilities in children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). Front Psychol. 2015 Apr 13;6:420. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00420. eCollection 2015. PMID: 25918508; PMCID: PMC4394662.
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Front Psychol. 2015 Apr 13;6:420. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00420. eCollection 2015.

Singing abilities in children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI).

Frontiers in psychology

Sylvain Clément, Clément Planchou, Renée Béland, Jacques Motte, Séverine Samson

Affiliations

  1. Neuropsychology: Auditory, Cognition, Action Team, Laboratoire PSITEC, UFR de Psychologie, Université de Lille Villeneuve d'Ascq, France.
  2. Neuropsychology: Auditory, Cognition, Action Team, Laboratoire PSITEC, UFR de Psychologie, Université de Lille Villeneuve d'Ascq, France ; Neurologie Pédiatrique, Pôle Femme-Mère-Enfant, American Memorial Hospital Reims, France.
  3. École d'Orthophonie et d'Audiologie, Université de Montréal Montréal, QC, Canada.
  4. Neurologie Pédiatrique, Pôle Femme-Mère-Enfant, American Memorial Hospital Reims, France.
  5. Neuropsychology: Auditory, Cognition, Action Team, Laboratoire PSITEC, UFR de Psychologie, Université de Lille Villeneuve d'Ascq, France ; Unité d'Épilepsie, Groupe Hospitalier Pitié-Salpêtrière Paris, France.

PMID: 25918508 PMCID: PMC4394662 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00420

Abstract

Specific Language Impairment (SLI) is a heritable neurodevelopmental disorder diagnosed when a child has difficulties learning to produce and/or understand speech for no apparent reason (Bishop et al., 2012). The verbal difficulties of children with SLI have been largely documented, and a growing number of studies suggest that these children may also have difficulties in processing non-verbal complex auditory stimuli (Corriveau et al., 2007; Brandt et al., 2012). In a recent study, we reported that a large proportion of children with SLI present deficits in music perception (Planchou et al., under revision). Little is known, however, about the singing abilities of children with SLI. In order to investigate whether or not the impairments in expressive language extend to the musical domain, we assessed singing abilities in eight children with SLI and 15 children with Typical Language Development (TLD) matched for age and non-verbal intelligence. To this aim, we designed a ludic activity consisting of two singing tasks: a pitch-matching and a melodic reproduction task. In the pitch-matching task, the children were requested to sing single notes. In the melodic reproduction task, children were asked to sing short melodies that were either familiar (FAM-SONG and FAM-TUNE conditions) or unfamiliar (UNFAM-TUNE condition). The analysis showed that children with SLI were impaired in the pitch-matching task, with a mean pitch error of 250 cents (mean pitch error for children with TLD: 154 cents). In the melodic reproduction task, we asked 30 healthy adults to rate the quality of the sung productions of the children on a continuous rating scale. The results revealed that singing of children with SLI received lower mean ratings than the children with TLD. Our findings thus indicate that children with SLI showed impairments in musical production and are discussed in light of a general auditory-motor dysfunction in children with SLI.

Keywords: Specific Language Impairment; musical perception; musical production; pitch-matching; singing

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