Parent-rating vs performance-based working memory measures: Association with spoken language measures in school-age children.

Authors: Magimairaj BM Abstract Working memory (WM) assessment is often part of cognitive-linguistic test batteries. The author examined the relationship between parent rating of WM functioning and children's performance-based WM, and the relationship of each with receptive and expressive spoken language measures. Study participants were eighty-three 7- to 11-year-old children. The sample represented a broad range of cognitive abilities. No participating child had frank neurological or intellectual disabilities, autism, fluency disorder, or hearing loss. Parents completed a standardized executive function rating scale that included a WM subscale. Children completed a standardized WM task and an experimental WM task. Children also completed six standardized language measures. Result...

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