Children with specific language impairment show reduced selective attention to and integration of audiovisual speech¶
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Currency · newest study 2020 · checked against its sources 2026-10-19 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2025: baselines and conditions change
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q2 i? Children with SLI/DLD, or a history of it, show decreased selective attention to audiovisual speech and reduced sensitivity to temporal synchrony; the review adds that persons with SLI gain less perceptual accuracy from audiovisual than auditory-only speech in noise. → Wallace 2020
Evidence¶
Wallace 2020¶
Wallace, M. T., Woynaroski, T. G., & Stevenson, R. A. (2020). Multisensory Integration as a Window into Orderly and Disrupted Cognition and Communication. Annual Review of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-psych-010419-051112
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The review reports, citing studies using psychophysics, eye tracking, and EEG/ERP, that children with SLI show decreased selective attention to audiovisual speech and reduced temporal synchrony sensitivity, and, citing Huyse et al., that persons with SLI (the review does not restrict this sentence to children) gain less perceptual accuracy from audiovisual versus auditory-only speech in noise.
"Relative to controls, they experience a lesser degree of gain in perceptual accuracy in noisy listening conditions with access to audiovisual versus auditory-only speech (Huyse et al.2015)"
Discussion¶
Learner Variables¶
- Auditory Processing — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
- Learning Disabilities and Developmental Differences — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
Related Claims¶
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- Multisensory temporal precision in autism is linked to speech integration, language abilities, and clinical symptomatology — related
- Individuals with dyslexia show impairments in audiovisual integration beyond phoneme-grapheme mapping — related
- Individuals with schizophrenia show reduced behavioral benefit from combined audiovisual cues and altered multisensory temporal processing — related
- Older adults show larger multisensory gains for simple stimuli but multisensory deficits for complex speech stimuli — related
- Children with language or attention disorders and second-language learners are more impaired by noise in speech perception than age-matched controls — related
- Audiovisual attention decomposition via forward encoding and variance partitioning yields VAC, AAC, and SAC as surrogate indicators, not direct measures of attention — related
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sli-reduced-audiovisual-speech-attention-integration |
title |
Children with specific language impairment show reduced selective attention to and integration of audiovisual speech |
description |
Children with specific language impairment show reduced selective attention to and integration of audiovisual speech |
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review |
evidence_strength |
moderate |
newest_evidence |
2020 |
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2026-10-19 |
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2025 |
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by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-17 |
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unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content |
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1 — wallace-2020 |
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