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Oral Reading and Expressive Language after Childhood Traumatic Brain Injury: Trajectory and Correlates of Change over Time
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Hanten, Gerri; Li, Xiaoqi; Newsome, Mary R.; Swank, Paul; Chapman, Sandra B.; Dennis, Maureen; Barnes, Marcia; Ewing-Cobbs, Linda; Levin, Harvey S. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2009
Oral reading and expressive language skills were examined in 2 cohorts of children aged 5-15 years, who had mild, moderate, or severe traumatic brain injury. Children recruited prospectively from time of injury were assessed on 5 occasions over 2 years in a longitudinal study of change in reading skills, using the Gray Oral Reading Test-3rd…
Descriptors: Sentences, Oral Reading, Head Injuries, Reading Tests
Word Finding in Children and Adolescents with a History of Brain Injury.
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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
A Procedure for Classifying Disruptions in Spontaneous Language Samples.
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Dollaghan, Christine A.; Campbell, Thomas F. – Topics in Language Disorders, 1992
Approaches to the analysis of utterance disruptions are reviewed, and a system is proposed for analyzing disruptions in spontaneous language, with four disruption categories (pauses, repetitions, revisions, and orphans). Use of the system is illustrated using language samples from 10 traumatically brain-injured and 10 normally developing speakers…
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Classification, Elementary Secondary Education, Error Analysis (Language)
A Method for Obtaining Listener Judgments of Spontaneously Produced Language: Social Validation through Direct Magnitude Estimation.
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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