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. 2012 Sep;6(2):143-60.
doi: 10.1111/j.1748-6653.2011.02020.x. Epub 2011 Nov 15.

Emerging narrative discourse skills 18 months after traumatic brain injury in early childhood

Nicolay Chertkoff Walz  1 , Keith Owen Yeates, H Gerry Taylor, Terry Stancin, Shari L Wade
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Emerging narrative discourse skills 18 months after traumatic brain injury in early childhood

Nicolay Chertkoff Walz et al. J Neuropsychol. 2012 Sep.

Abstract

This study examined the longer term effect of traumatic brain injury (TBI), approximately 18 months post-injury, on emerging narrative discourse skills of 85 children with orthopaedic injury (OI), 43 children with moderate TBI, and 19 children with severe TBI who were between 3 years and 6 years 11 months at injury. Children with TBI performed worse than children with OI on most discourse indices. Children with severe TBI were less proficient than children with moderate TBI at identifying unimportant story information. Age and pragmatic skills were predictors of discourse performance.

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