Children's naming and word-finding difficulties: Descriptions and explanations

D Messer, JE Dockrell - 2006 - ASHA
Purpose There is a substantial minority of children for whom lexical retrieval problems
impede the normal pattern of language development and use. These problems include …

Language profiles and naming in children with word finding difficulties

JE Dockrell, D Messer - Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica, 2007 - karger.com
Objective: To examine whether lexical access problems in children with word finding
difficulties (WFDs) are restricted to measures of naming or include wider language …

Patterns of naming objects and actions in children with word finding difficulties

JE Dockrell, D Messer, R George - Language and Cognitive …, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
Children who experience difficulties in naming are described as having word finding
difficulties (WFDs). In the present study 31 children with WFDs were identified through a …

The impact of lexical factors on children's word-finding errors

DJ German, RS Newman - 2004 - ASHA
This retrospective, exploratory investigation examined the types of target words that 30
children with word-finding difficulties (aged 8 to 12 years) had difficulty naming and the types …

Notes and discussion children with word-finding difficulties-prevalence, presentation and naming problems

D Julie, M David, G Rachel, W Gillie - International Journal of …, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
There is increasing interest from therapists and researchers in children's wordfinding
difficulties (WFDs). Word finding difficulties are usually considered to be present when …

Diagnosis of word-finding disorders in children with learning disabilities

D German - Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1984 - journals.sagepub.com
This investigation compared the naming abilities of learning disabled children diagnosed as
having word-finding problems with learning disabled and normal children assessed as …

Effects of lexical factors on lexical access among typical language-learning children and children with word-finding difficulties

RS Newman, DJ German - Language and speech, 2002 - journals.sagepub.com
This investigation studied the influence of lexical factors, known to impact lexical access in
adults, on the word retrieval of children. Participants included 320 typicaland atypical (word …

The nature of word-finding errors of preschoolers with and without word-finding deficits

KK McGregor - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1997 - ASHA
Twelve preschoolers with word-finding deficits (WF) and their age-matched normally
developing (ND) peers participated in three tasks requiring word finding: the noun-naming …

Word-finding skills in children with learning disabilities

DJ Newman German - Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1979 - journals.sagepub.com
This study investigated word-finding skills in learning disabled children. Subjects were
administered measures designed to explore word-finding ability in three stimulus contexts …

Word learning in children with vocabulary deficits

M Nash, ML Donaldson - 2005 - ASHA
Word learning in 16 children with specific language impairment (SLI) was compared with
that of chronological-age controls (CAC) and vocabulary-age controls (VAC), to examine the …