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Peer reviewedTowne, Roger L.; Entwisle, Laura M. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 1993
This study of comprehension of metaphors found that 11 adolescents with traumatic brain injury (TBI) exhibited little difference in comprehension compared to that of 18 normal adolescents. Ten adolescents with language learning disability, in contrast, demonstrated significantly poorer comprehension of metaphors than did both the normal subjects…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Head Injuries
