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Indices of Narrative Language Associated with Disability
dc.contributor.author | Almubark, Norah M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Silva-Maceda, Gabriela | |
dc.contributor.author | Foster, Matthew E. | |
dc.contributor.author | Spencer, Trina D. | |
dc.contributor.editor | Pinto, Maria Antonietta | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-06-17T17:41:41Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-06-17T17:41:41Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-11-15 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Almubark NM, Silva-Maceda G, Foster ME, Spencer TD. Indices of Narrative Language Associated with Disability. Children (Basel). 2023 Nov 15;10(11):1815. doi: 10.3390/children10111815. PMID: 38002906; PMCID: PMC10670771 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1808/35191 | |
dc.description.abstract | Narratives skills are associated with long-term academic and social benefits. While students with disabilities often struggle to produce complete and complex narratives, it remains unclear which aspects of narrative language are most indicative of disability. In this study, we examined the association between a variety of narrative contents and form indices and disability. Methodology involved drawing 50 K-3 students with Individual Education Programs (IEP) and reported language concerns from a large diverse sample (n = 1074). Fifty typically developing (TD) students were matched to the former group using propensity score matching based on their age, gender, grade, mother’s education, and ethnicity. Narrative retells and generated language samples were collected and scored for Narrative Discourse and Sentence Complexity using a narrative scoring rubric. In addition, the number of different words (NDW), subordination index (SI), and percentage of grammatical errors (%GE) were calculated using computer software. Results of the Mixed effect model revealed that only Narrative Discourse had a significant effect on disability, with no significant effect revealed for Sentence Complexity, %GE, SI, and NDW. Additionally, Narrative Discourse emerged as the sole significant predictor of disability. At each grade, there were performance gaps between groups in the Narrative Discourse, Language Complexity, and SI. Findings suggest that difficulty in Narrative Discourse is the most consistent predictor of disability. | en_US |
dc.publisher | MDPI | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright © 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.subject | Academic language | en_US |
dc.subject | Language sampling | en_US |
dc.subject | Narrative discourse | en_US |
dc.subject | Disability | en_US |
dc.title | Indices of Narrative Language Associated with Disability | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Spencer, Trina D. | |
kusw.kudepartment | Department of Applied Behavioral Science | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.3390/children10111815 | en_US |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0009-0006-1163-8757 | en_US |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7313-4777 | en_US |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6549-6380 | en_US |
dc.identifier.orcid | https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3531-8276 | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.identifier.pmid | 10.3390/children10111815 | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | en_US |
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