Narrative Content as Described by Individuals With Down Syndrome and Typically Developing Children

Narratives of a wordless picture story by 33 individuals with Down syndrome (ages 12-26) and 99 typical children were analyzed. Individuals with Down syndrome expressed more plot line and thematic content and retold more of one of the protagonists' misadventures than the children matched for me...

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Published in:Journal of speech, language, and hearing research language, and hearing research, 2002-02, Vol.45 (1), p.175-189
Main Authors: Miles, Sally, Chapman, Robin S
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Adults
Analysis of Variance
Biological and medical sciences
Case-Control Studies
Child
Child clinical studies
Child development
Children
Cognitive Development
Content analysis
Developmental disorders
Down Syndrome
Down Syndrome - complications
Down's syndrome
Downs syndrome
Evaluation
Expressive Language
Female
Humans
Individual Characteristics
Intellectual deficiency
Intellectual Disability - etiology
Intellectual Disability - physiopathology
Language
Language Acquisition
Language development
Language Development Disorders - etiology
Language Development Disorders - physiopathology
Language Impairments
Language Skills
Language Tests
Linguistics
Male
Medical sciences
Mental Age
Mentally disabled children
Narration
Narrative art (Visual arts)
Narratives
Picture books
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Receptive Language
Speech disorders
Stories
Story Telling
Study and teaching
Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Thinking Skills
Verbal Behavior
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Summary:Narratives of a wordless picture story by 33 individuals with Down syndrome (ages 12-26) and 99 typical children were analyzed. Individuals with Down syndrome expressed more plot line and thematic content and retold more of one of the protagonists' misadventures than the children matched for mean length of utterance. (Contains references.) (Author/CR)
ISSN:1092-4388
1558-9102
DOI:10.1044/1092-4388(2002/013)