title: Closed-head-injured children's performance on narrative tasks.
abstract: Stories were elicited from a group of 20 closed-head-injured children. Story grammar and intersentential cohesion were examined. Performance of the head-injured children was compared to that of a group of nonneurologically impaired accident victims matched for age, sex, and socioeconomic status. No significant differences were found between the performance of the closed-head-injured children and the matched controls on any of the measures of narrative ability applied to the elicited narratives.
authors.affiliation: Department of Speech and Hearing, University of Queensland, Australia.
authors.forename: F M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Jordan
authors.forename: B E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Murdoch
authors.forename: D L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Buttsworth
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D006259:Craniocerebral Trauma / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007807:Language Tests / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards; D008037:Linguistics; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D015203:Reproducibility of Results