Learning a new poem: Memory for connected speech and phonological awareness in low-income...

Examines rate memory for connected speech in low-income children with and without specific language impairment (SLI). Serial memory deficits in children with SLI; Relationship between short-term memory, phonological awareness, and beginning reading; Knowledge of nursery rhymes in preschoolers with SLI; Correlations among initial sound detection tasks and poem learning.