Written Narrative Characteristics in Adults with Language Impairment

Autor/inn/en	Suddarth, Rachael; Plante, Elena; Vance, Rebecca
Titel	Written Narrative Characteristics in Adults with Language Impairment
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 55 (2012) 2, S.409-420 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
DOI	10.1044/1092-4388(2011/10-0295)
Schlagwörter	Written Language; Language Impairments; Language Skills; Writing (Composition); Oral Language; Effect Size; Discriminant Analysis; Verbs; Adults; Comparative Analysis; Measures (Individuals); Robustness (Statistics); Speech Language Pathology; Diagnostic Tests + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geschriebene Sprache; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Schreibübung; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Diskriminanzanalyse; Messdaten; Widerstandsfähigkeit; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test
Abstract	Purpose: Adults with language-based disabilities are known to have deficits in oral language; however, less is known about their written language skills. Two studies were designed to characterize the writing of adults with language-based disabilities. Method: In Study 1, 60 adults, 30 with language impairment and 30 with typical language, completed written narratives. Forty-one written language measures were analyzed. In Study 2, the measures that had the most potential for reliably indexing deficits were analyzed in an additional 77 adults. Results: Three measures that showed significant between-group differences and had robust effect sizes in Study 1, total number of verbs, 1-part verbs, and errors, were applied to the samples in Study 2. A group difference for percentage of errors was replicated in the second sample. A discriminant analysis identified 75% of the adults with language impairment and 30% of the adults with typical language as having an impairment based on the percent of written errors. Conclusions: The writing task revealed consistent group differences in written errors and is clinically applicable in describing a client's writing. However, the number of written errors was not robust enough to identify whether an adult had a language impairment or not. (As Provided).
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