Narrative Skills in Children with Selective Mutism: An Exploratory Study

Autor/inn/en	McInnes, Alison; Fung, Daniel; Manassis, Katharina; Fiksenbaum, Lisa; Tannock, Rosemary
Titel	Narrative Skills in Children with Selective Mutism: An Exploratory Study
Quelle	In: American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 13 (2004) 4, S.304-315 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1058-0360
DOI	10.1044/1058-0360(2004/031)
Schlagwörter	Language Impairments; Receptive Language; Expressive Language; Anxiety; Children; Psychosomatic Disorders; Communication Problems; Speech Impairments; Comparative Analysis; Academic Achievement + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Rezeptive Kommunikationsfähigkeit; Angst; Child; Kind; Kinder; Disease of psychosomatic origin; Psychosomatische Krankheit; Kommunikationsbarriere; Language handicps; Language impairments; Schulleistung
Abstract	Selective mutism (SM) is a rare and complex disorder associated with anxiety symptoms and speech-language deficits; however, the nature of these language deficits has not been studied systematically. A novel cross-disciplinary assessment protocol was used to assess anxiety and nonverbal cognitive, receptive language, and expressive narrative abilities in 7 children with SM and a comparison group of 7 children with social phobia (SP). The children with SM produced significantly shorter narratives than children with SP, despite showing normal nonverbal cognitive and receptive language abilities. The findings suggest that SM may involve subtle expressive language deficits that may influence academic performance and raise additional questions for further research. The assessment procedure developed for this study may be potentially useful for language clinicians. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10