Content and Form in the Narratives of Children With Specific Language Impairment.

Purpose: This project investigated the relationship of content and form in the narratives of school-age children. Method: Two samples of children with specific language impairment (SLI) and their age-matched peers (British Columbia sample, M age = 9;0 [years;months], N = 26; Texas/Kansas sample, M a...

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Publicado en:Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 54; no. 6; pp. 1609 - 1628
Autores principales: Colozzo, Paola, Gillam, Ronald B., Wood, Megan, Schnell, Rebecca D., Johnston, Judith R.
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Publicado: American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Dec2011
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          Colozzo, Paola
          Gillam, Ronald B.
          Wood, Megan
          Schnell, Rebecca D.
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          The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
          Utah State University, Logan
          The University of Texas at Austin
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        Intelligence tests
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        Chi-squared test
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        Speech evaluation
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        Descriptive statistics
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      ab: Purpose: This project investigated the relationship of content and form in the narratives of school-age children. Method: Two samples of children with specific language impairment (SLI) and their age-matched peers (British Columbia sample, M age = 9;0 [years;months], N = 26; Texas/Kansas sample, M age = 7;6, N = 40) completed the Test of Narrative Language (TNL; Gillam & Pearson, 2004). The relative strength of content elaboration and grammatical accuracy were measured for each child using variables derived from the TNL scoring system (Study 1) and from analysis of the story texts (Study 2). Results: Both studies indicated that, compared with age peers, the children with SLI were more likely to produce stories of uneven strength -- either stories with poor content that were grammatically quite accurate or stories with elaborated content that were less grammatical. Conclusions: These findings suggest that school-age children with SLI may struggle with the cumulative load of creating a story that is both elaborate and grammatical. They also show that the absence of errors is not necessarily a sign of strength. Finally, they underscore the value of comparing individual differences in multiple linguistic domains, including the elaboration of content, grammatical accuracy, and syntactic complexity.
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