This paper presents a case study of a 7-year-old girl with severe language
disorder. It explores her input language processing skills using theoretically
motivated questions derived from a psycholinguistic framework. It compares her
performance on experimental tasks to age matched controls (n = 28).
This exploration revealed multiple processing deficits, including auditory
discrimination problems. The second phase of the study was a treatment period
targeting auditory discrimination. The child’s auditory discrimination
improved but these gains did not generalize to other language processes. The
paper discusses the results with reference to a developing system.
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