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ERIC Number: EJ1465772
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Apr
Pages: 12
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1081-4159
EISSN: EISSN-1465-7325
Available Date: 2024-11-23
The Story so Far: Scoping Review of Narratives in Deaf Children
Jane Puhlman1; Lauren Sabatino1; Zara Waldman DeLuca2; Ciera Lorio3; Lindsay Decker1
Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, v30 n2 p268-279 2025
Narrative language samples can be used to measure language development in children, but research on narrative development in deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) children is scarce, limiting knowledge of developmental stages and best practices for collection and analysis. This scoping review included 39 articles that explored recent methodologies and achievements in oral or signed narratives of DHH children, including comparisons with hearing peers and within-group analyses of early auditory experience, device use, and other measures. Articles featured DHH participants aged < 4 to 18 years, varying in device use, communication modalities, and educational settings. Most studies utilized story generation tasks with early elementary-aged children and analyzed either microstructure or macrostructure. Mixed results in comparisons with hearing children emphasized the need to consider individual differences (e.g., speech perception and age of spoken language access) in DHH narrative assessments. Findings also suggest that comparability across studies would be improved by more consistent terminology and procedures in narrative collection/analysis.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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Author Affiliations: 1Communication Sciences & Disorders, University of Maine, 336 Dunn Hall, Orono, ME 04469, United States; 2Communication Disorders, Southern Connecticut State University, Health and Human Services Building 493 Fitch Street, New Haven, CT 06514, United States; 3Communication Science & Disorders, Illinois State University, 508 Dry Grove Street, Normal IL 61761, United States