Do children with specific language impairments perceive speech most categorically when tokens are natural and meaningful?
Overall, children with SLI perceived naturally spoken real words comparably to age-matched peers but showed impaired identification and discrimination of synthetic speech and of abstract syllables. Poor performance on speech perception tasks may result from task demands and stimulus properties, not perceptual deficits.
The ability of methylselenol to inhibit HDAC activity has not been previously reported, thus providing a novel mechanism of selenium action.