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Conlon, Olivia; Volden, Joanne; Smith, Isabel M.; Duku, Eric; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie; Waddell, Charlotte; Szatmari, Peter; Mirenda, Pat; Vaillancourt, Tracy; Bennett, Teresa; Georgiades, Stelios; Elsabbagh, Mayada; Ungar, Wendy. J. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2019
Possible gender differences in manifestations of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) were examined using data on production of narratives. The Expression, Reception and Recall of Narrative Instrument (ERRNI; Bishop, Expression, Reception and Recall of Narrative Instrument, Harcourt assessment, London, 2004) was administered to a sample of matched…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Pragmatics, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Nordberg, Ann; Dahlgren Sandberg, Annika; Miniscalco, Carmela – International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2015
Background: Research on retelling ability and cognition is limited in children with cerebral palsy (CP) and speech impairment. Aims: To explore the impact of expressive and receptive language, narrative discourse dimensions (Narrative Assessment Profile measures), auditory and visual memory, theory of mind (ToM) and non-verbal cognition on the…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Story Telling, Language Skills, Speech Impairments
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McDonough, Kathleen M. – Behavioral Disorders, 1989
Analysis of the discourse of eight- and nine-year-old children with emotional disturbances as compared with that of non-emotionally disturbed peers found significant differences between the groups. The analysis focused on mean length of utterances and discourse error patterns. (MSE)
Descriptors: Children, Discourse Analysis, Emotional Disturbances, Error Patterns
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Suty, Karen A. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1986
Analysis of spontaneous storytelling samples of deaf 5- to 7-year-olds (N=15), all exposed to manually coded English for some time, differentially showed characteristics more consistent with either English or Sign Language in the language areas of explicit relations, mimed relations, incorporated relations, and English Functors. (CB)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Children, Deafness, Discourse Analysis
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Biddle, Kathleen R.; And Others – Journal of Communication Disorders, 1996
This study used dependency analysis to document and describe the narrative discourse impairments of 10 children (mean age 12) and 10 adults (mean age 35) with traumatic brain injury (TBI), and matched controls. Individuals with TBI were significantly more disfluent than controls and their narrative performance required a significant listener…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Communication Skills, Discourse Analysis