Developmental changes in narrative and non-narrative discourse in children with and without brain injury

This study presents a set of narrative and non-narrative tasks and analytic procedures for examining the discourse development of children with perinatal brain injury and typically developing children. Three oral discourse genres were collected at ages 5, 6, and 7: script, picture description, and r...

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Published in:Journal of communication disorders 1994-06, Vol.27 (2), p.107-133
Main Authors: Hemphill, Lowry, Feldman, Heidi M., Camp, Linda, Griffin, Terri M., Miranda, Ana-Elisabeth B., Wolf, Dennis Palmer
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Brain Injuries - complications
Child
Child Development
Child Language
Child, Preschool
Connected Discourse
Discourse Analysis
Early Childhood Education
Expressive Language
Female
Humans
Language Acquisition
Language Development
Language Disorders - diagnosis
Language Disorders - etiology
Language Skills
Language Tests
Male
Narration
Neurological Impairments
Oral Language
Test Validity
Verbal Behavior
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Summary:This study presents a set of narrative and non-narrative tasks and analytic procedures for examining the discourse development of children with perinatal brain injury and typically developing children. Three oral discourse genres were collected at ages 5, 6, and 7: script, picture description, and replica play narration. Genre performances were assessed for the presence of hypothesized genre features. Results suggest these tasks and procedures are able to characterize development in discourse abilities for both a normative group and for children with perinatal brain injury. The group of children with brain injury produced shorter discourse performances with more off-task talk. This group also showed difficulty in fully differentiating the various genre types and in creating integrated discourse performances. However, most of these children demonstrated considerable growth in control of genre features over this time period. The possible utility of these tasks and procedures for clinical assessment is discussed.
ISSN:0021-9924
1873-7994
DOI:10.1016/0021-9924(94)90037-X