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What's the Story? Micro- and Macro- Analyses of Narratives from Children with ADHD and LI

Hamilton, Alexa Kate
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1745-0564
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1430341132

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2015, Master of Arts, Miami University, Speech Pathology and Audiology.
This study examined the narrative production skills of 4 groups of children, ages 73-107 months, with ADHD, SLI, ADHD+LI, and typical development (TD). The "Aliens" story from the Test of Narrative Language (Gillam & Pearson, 2004) was elicited. Several micro- and macro-structural analyses were conducted. The mean length of utterance, a microstructure measure, differentiated the groups with linguistic impairments from the ADHD group. Lexical diversity discriminated the ADHD+LI group from the ADHD group and grammatical errors differentiated the SLI group from the TD group. Macrostructure analyses revealed a different story: the ADHD+LI group produced fewer story grammar items from the Index of Narrative Complexity (Petersen et al., 2008) than all of the other groups. Results provide insight into the value of narrative analysis as a clinical tool in assessing the language skills of school-age children.
Geralyn Timler, Ph.D., CCC-SLP (Advisor)
Brooke Spangler, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Lisa Williamson, M.A., CCC-SLP (Committee Member)
54 p.
Speech Therapy
narrative analysis, microstructure, macrostructure, ADHD, SLI, language disorders

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  • Hamilton, A. K. (2015). What's the Story? Micro- and Macro- Analyses of Narratives from Children with ADHD and LI [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1430341132

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hamilton, Alexa. What's the Story? Micro- and Macro- Analyses of Narratives from Children with ADHD and LI . 2015. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1430341132.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hamilton, Alexa. "What's the Story? Micro- and Macro- Analyses of Narratives from Children with ADHD and LI ." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1430341132

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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