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Steel, Joanne; Elbourn, Elise; Togher, Leanne – Topics in Language Disorders, 2021
Purpose: Narrative discourse (e.g., telling anecdotes or relating personal events) comprises a key part of social interaction and is commonly affected after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Research over the past decades has enabled improved characterization of discourse impairment after TBI, but a critical lack of research into discourse…
Descriptors: Brain, Injuries, Personal Narratives, Discourse Analysis
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Dennis, Maureen – Topics in Language Disorders, 1992
Word finding in relation to brain injury is discussed for children and adolescents with unilateral congenital malformations of the brain, early hydrocephalus, childhood-acquired left hemisphere stroke, and acquired traumatic head injury. Studies examining the recovery of word-finding deficits after brain injury are discussed, along with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adventitious Impairments, Children, Congenital Impairments
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Campbell, Thomas F.; Dollaghan, Christine – Topics in Language Disorders, 1992
This paper reviews basic social validity assessment techniques, discusses the constructs underlying direct magnitude estimation (DME), illustrates the use of DME for performing social validity evaluations of spontaneous language samples (with 3 brain-injured children, ages 10-15, and 3 controls), and discusses the relationship between subjective…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Expressive Language