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Published on: September 19, 2019
A longitudinal study of narrative development in children and adolescents with Down syndrome
Patricia Cleave1, Elizabeth Kay-Raining Bird, Rachael Czutrin
1School of Human Communication Disorders, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. pcleave@dal.ca
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.
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