Comprehension of Rate Controlled Speech By Children With Specific Learning Disabilities

Abstract

The purpose was to determine whether comprehension of a spoken message by children with specific learning disabilities is affected by altering the rate at which the message is presented. The subjects were 20 children between 5 and 17 years of age who demonstrated a disability in comprehending spoken messages but whose auditory sensitivity was within normal limits. The stimuli were 50 simple declarative sentences presented at five predetermined message rates. The rates included two conditions of expansion, a normal rate, and two conditions of compression. The results indicate that rate did not influence comprehension when the data from all subjects were pooled; however, analysis of data from the 10 youngest children revealed significant differences in comprehension according to rate of speech.

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