The narrative coherence of witness transcripts in children on the autism spectrum.
Background and Aims: Autistic children often recall fewer details about witnessed events than typically developing children (of comparable age and ability), although the information they recall is generally no less accurate. Previous research has not examined the narrative coherence of such accounts...
| Published in: | Research in Developmental Disabilities Vol. 96 |
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Pergamon Press - An Imprint of Elsevier Science
Jan2020
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=141216549&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 141216549 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 08914222 JJZ jtl: Research in Developmental Disabilities issn: 08914222 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jan2020 vid: 96 pid: 2410 pub: Pergamon Press - An Imprint of Elsevier Science artinfo: ui: 141216549 141216549 NLM31756692 141216549 10.1016/j.ridd.2019.103518 NLM31756692 141216549 ppct: 1 formats: tig: atl: The narrative coherence of witness transcripts in children on the autism spectrum. aug: au: Henry, Lucy A. Crane, Laura Fesser, Eva Harvey, Anna Palmer, Lucy Wilcock, Rachel affil: City, University of London, 10 Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB, UK sug: subj: Narratives Memory Male Case Control Studies Child Female Human Child: 6-12 years Male Female ab: Background and Aims: Autistic children often recall fewer details about witnessed events than typically developing children (of comparable age and ability), although the information they recall is generally no less accurate. Previous research has not examined the narrative coherence of such accounts, despite higher quality narratives potentially being perceived more favourably by criminal justice professionals and juries. This study compared the narrative coherence of witness transcripts produced by autistic and typically developing (TD) children (ages 6-11 years, IQs 70+).Methods and Procedures: Secondary analysis was carried out on interview transcripts from a subset of 104 participants (autism = 52, TD = 52) who had taken part in a larger study of eyewitness skills in autistic and TD children. Groups were matched on chronological age, IQ and receptive language ability. Coding frameworks were adopted from existing narrative research, featuring elements of 'story grammar'.Outcomes and Results: Whilst fewer event details were reported by autistic children, there were no group differences in narrative coherence (number and diversity of 'story grammar' elements used), narrative length or semantic diversity.Conclusions and Implications: These findings suggest that the narrative coherence of autistic children's witness accounts is equivalent to TD peers of comparable age and ability. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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