Written Narrative Characteristics in Adults With Language Impairment

被引:9
作者
Suddarth, Rachael [1 ]
Plante, Elena [1 ]
Vance, Rebecca [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ USA
来源
JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH | 2012年 / 55卷 / 02期
关键词
written language; narrative; adults; language disorders; assessment; LEARNING-DISABLED STUDENTS; SCHOOL-AGE-CHILDREN; EXPOSITORY DISCOURSE; SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY; STORY COMPOSITION; COLLEGE WRITERS; FOLLOW-UP; EXPRESSION; SPOKEN; OUTCOMES;
D O I
10.1044/1092-4388(2011/10-0295)
中图分类号
R36 [病理学]; R76 [耳鼻咽喉科学];
学科分类号
100104 ; 100213 ;
摘要
Purpose: Adults with language-based disabilities are known to have deficits in oral language; however, less is known about their written language skills. Two studies were designed to characterize the writing of adults with language-based disabilities. Method: In Study 1, 60 adults, 30 with language impairment and 30 with typical language, completed written narratives. Forty-one written language measures were analyzed. In Study 2, the measures that had the most potential for reliably indexing deficits were analyzed in an additional 77 adults. Results: Three measures that showed significant between-group differences and had robust effect sizes in Study 1, total number of verbs, 1-part verbs, and errors, were applied to the samples in Study 2. A group difference for percentage of errors was replicated in the second sample. A discriminant analysis identified 75% of the adults with language impairment and 30% of the adults with typical language as having an impairment based on the percent of written errors. Conclusions: The writing task revealed consistent group differences in written errors and is clinically applicable in describing a client's writing. However, the number of written errors was not robust enough to identify whether an adult had a language impairment or not.
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页码:409 / 420
页数:12
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