Journal Reviews

Bright young things: executive functioning in younger, older and aphasic people

27 February 2020 | | Speech and Language Therapy | aging, aphasia, dual task processing, executive functions, set-switching

Executive function comprises several higher order cognitive processes such as planning, organisation, adaptation, maintenance, monitoring and decision making. It is thought that difficulties in cognitive flexibility in people with aphasia are associated with difficulties in executive function rather than the...

Semantic fluency test to investigate deaf children

1 July 2018 | | British Sign Language (BSL), deaf, executive functions, lexicon, semantic fluency, vocabulary

Semantic fluency task (SFT) is used to measure lexical organisation and executive function across the lifespan and requires participants to name examples from a particular semantic category in a specific period of time. Using this test, the authors investigated a...

Specific language impairment in bilingual vs monolingual children

1 May 2015 | | bilingual, executive function, language-minority, poverty, specific language impairment

Research has focused mainly on the specific language impairment (SLI) in monolingual children. This article focuses attention on the SLI in bilingual children. The study was conducted with bilingual children from Luxembourg and monolingual children from Portugal who all had...