A Longitudinal Study of Narrative Development in Children and Adolescents with Down Syndrome

Autor/inn/en	Cleave, Patricia; Bird, Elizabeth Kay-Raining; Czutrin, Rachael; Smith, Lindsey
Titel	A Longitudinal Study of Narrative Development in Children and Adolescents with Down Syndrome
Quelle	In: Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 50 (2012) 4, S.332-342 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1934-9556
DOI	10.1352/1934-9556-50.4.332
Schlagwörter	Comprehension; Adolescents; Children; Semantics; Expressive Language; Language Skills; Personal Narratives; Down Syndrome; Mental Age; Longitudinal Studies; Child Development; Language Acquisition; Syntax; Predictor Variables + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Verstehen; Verständnis; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Child; Kind; Kinder; Semantik; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Erlebniserzählung; 'Downs Syndrome; Down''s Syndrome'; Down-Syndrom; Geistige Beweglichkeit; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Kindesentwicklung; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Prädiktor
Abstract	The present study examined narrative development in children and adolescents with Down syndrome longitudinally. Narratives were collected from 32 children and adolescents with Down syndrome three times over a 1-year period. Both micro- and macrolevel analyses were conducted. Significant growth over the 1-year period was seen in semantic complexity and narrative structure. However, there was no evidence of growth in syntactic complexity or narrative length. Mental age and comprehension skills at Time 1 predicted scores in all 4 areas at Time 3. Expressive language skills added further to the prediction of syntactic complexity and story length. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10