Narrative competence among hearing-impaired and normal-hearing children: analytical cross-sectional study

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Autor(a) principal: Soares,Alexandra Dezani
Data de Publicação: 2010
Outros Autores: Goulart,Bárbara Niegia Garcia de, Chiari,Brasilia Maria
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: São Paulo medical journal (Online)
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Resumo: CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Oral narrative is a means of language development assessment. However, standardized data for deaf patients are scarce. The aim here was to compare the use of narrative competence between hearing-impaired and normal-hearing children. DESIGN AND SETTING: Analytical cross-sectional study at the Department of Speech-Language and Hearing Sciences, Universidade Federal de São Paulo. METHODS: Twenty-one moderately to profoundly bilaterally hearing-impaired children (cases) and 21 normal-hearing children without language abnormalities (controls), matched according to sex, age, schooling level and school type, were studied. A board showing pictures in a temporally logical sequence was presented to each child, to elicit a narrative, and the child's performance relating to narrative structure and cohesion was measured. The frequencies of variables, their associations (Mann-Whitney test) and their 95% confidence intervals was analyzed. RESULTS: The deaf subjects showed poorer performance regarding narrative structure, use of connectives, cohesion measurements and general punctuation (P < 0.05). There were no differences in the number of propositions elaborated or in referent specification between the two groups. The deaf children produced a higher proportion of orientation-related propositions (P = 0.001) and lower proportions of propositions relating to complicating actions (P = 0.015) and character reactions (P = 0.005). CONCLUSION: Hearing-impaired children have abnormalities in different aspects of language, involving form, content and use, in relation to their normal-hearing peers. Narrative competence was also associated with the children's ages and the school type.
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spelling Narrative competence among hearing-impaired and normal-hearing children: analytical cross-sectional studyHearing lossNarrationLanguage disordersCommunication disordersSpeech-language pathologyCONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Oral narrative is a means of language development assessment. However, standardized data for deaf patients are scarce. The aim here was to compare the use of narrative competence between hearing-impaired and normal-hearing children. DESIGN AND SETTING: Analytical cross-sectional study at the Department of Speech-Language and Hearing Sciences, Universidade Federal de São Paulo. METHODS: Twenty-one moderately to profoundly bilaterally hearing-impaired children (cases) and 21 normal-hearing children without language abnormalities (controls), matched according to sex, age, schooling level and school type, were studied. A board showing pictures in a temporally logical sequence was presented to each child, to elicit a narrative, and the child's performance relating to narrative structure and cohesion was measured. The frequencies of variables, their associations (Mann-Whitney test) and their 95% confidence intervals was analyzed. RESULTS: The deaf subjects showed poorer performance regarding narrative structure, use of connectives, cohesion measurements and general punctuation (P < 0.05). There were no differences in the number of propositions elaborated or in referent specification between the two groups. The deaf children produced a higher proportion of orientation-related propositions (P = 0.001) and lower proportions of propositions relating to complicating actions (P = 0.015) and character reactions (P = 0.005). CONCLUSION: Hearing-impaired children have abnormalities in different aspects of language, involving form, content and use, in relation to their normal-hearing peers. Narrative competence was also associated with the children's ages and the school type.Associação Paulista de Medicina - APM2010-01-01info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersiontext/htmlhttp://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-31802010000500008Sao Paulo Medical Journal v.128 n.5 2010reponame:São Paulo medical journal (Online)instname:Associação Paulista de Medicinainstacron:APM10.1590/S1516-31802010000500008info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSoares,Alexandra DezaniGoulart,Bárbara Niegia Garcia deChiari,Brasilia Mariaeng2010-12-16T00:00:00Zoai:scielo:S1516-31802010000500008Revistahttp://www.scielo.br/spmjhttps://old.scielo.br/oai/scielo-oai.phprevistas@apm.org.br1806-94601516-3180opendoar:2010-12-16T00:00São Paulo medical journal (Online) - Associação Paulista de Medicinafalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Narrative competence among hearing-impaired and normal-hearing children: analytical cross-sectional study
title Narrative competence among hearing-impaired and normal-hearing children: analytical cross-sectional study
spellingShingle Narrative competence among hearing-impaired and normal-hearing children: analytical cross-sectional study
Soares,Alexandra Dezani
Hearing loss
Narration
Language disorders
Communication disorders
Speech-language pathology
title_short Narrative competence among hearing-impaired and normal-hearing children: analytical cross-sectional study
title_full Narrative competence among hearing-impaired and normal-hearing children: analytical cross-sectional study
title_fullStr Narrative competence among hearing-impaired and normal-hearing children: analytical cross-sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Narrative competence among hearing-impaired and normal-hearing children: analytical cross-sectional study
title_sort Narrative competence among hearing-impaired and normal-hearing children: analytical cross-sectional study
author Soares,Alexandra Dezani
author_facet Soares,Alexandra Dezani
Goulart,Bárbara Niegia Garcia de
Chiari,Brasilia Maria
author_role author
author2 Goulart,Bárbara Niegia Garcia de
Chiari,Brasilia Maria
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Soares,Alexandra Dezani
Goulart,Bárbara Niegia Garcia de
Chiari,Brasilia Maria
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Hearing loss
Narration
Language disorders
Communication disorders
Speech-language pathology
topic Hearing loss
Narration
Language disorders
Communication disorders
Speech-language pathology
description CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE: Oral narrative is a means of language development assessment. However, standardized data for deaf patients are scarce. The aim here was to compare the use of narrative competence between hearing-impaired and normal-hearing children. DESIGN AND SETTING: Analytical cross-sectional study at the Department of Speech-Language and Hearing Sciences, Universidade Federal de São Paulo. METHODS: Twenty-one moderately to profoundly bilaterally hearing-impaired children (cases) and 21 normal-hearing children without language abnormalities (controls), matched according to sex, age, schooling level and school type, were studied. A board showing pictures in a temporally logical sequence was presented to each child, to elicit a narrative, and the child's performance relating to narrative structure and cohesion was measured. The frequencies of variables, their associations (Mann-Whitney test) and their 95% confidence intervals was analyzed. RESULTS: The deaf subjects showed poorer performance regarding narrative structure, use of connectives, cohesion measurements and general punctuation (P < 0.05). There were no differences in the number of propositions elaborated or in referent specification between the two groups. The deaf children produced a higher proportion of orientation-related propositions (P = 0.001) and lower proportions of propositions relating to complicating actions (P = 0.015) and character reactions (P = 0.005). CONCLUSION: Hearing-impaired children have abnormalities in different aspects of language, involving form, content and use, in relation to their normal-hearing peers. Narrative competence was also associated with the children's ages and the school type.
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