Linguistic Differences in Multiple Tellings of a Story

Location

CSU

Student's Major

Speech, Hearing, and Rehabilitation Services

Student's College

Allied Health and Nursing

Mentor's Name

Patricia Hargrove

Mentor's Department

Speech, Hearing, and Rehabilitation Services

Mentor's College

Allied Health and Nursing

Description

"Frog Where Are You," a pictureless storybook, is frequently used to assess the language of children by Speech-Language Pathologists. The typical strategy involves having the children tell the story two times. The first telling is practice, and the second serves as the basis for the language analysis. The purpose of this research is to determine if there is a significant difference between the language samples produced in two readings. Language samples from twelve children with a specific genetic syndrome have been elicited using the "Frog Where Are You?" protocol. This research will compare the first and second tellings of the story in a variety of linguistic behaviors, including Mean Length of Utterances, Mazing, and production of selected morphemes. The results have clinical applications and address the need to have multiple story tellings.

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Linguistic Differences in Multiple Tellings of a Story

CSU

"Frog Where Are You," a pictureless storybook, is frequently used to assess the language of children by Speech-Language Pathologists. The typical strategy involves having the children tell the story two times. The first telling is practice, and the second serves as the basis for the language analysis. The purpose of this research is to determine if there is a significant difference between the language samples produced in two readings. Language samples from twelve children with a specific genetic syndrome have been elicited using the "Frog Where Are You?" protocol. This research will compare the first and second tellings of the story in a variety of linguistic behaviors, including Mean Length of Utterances, Mazing, and production of selected morphemes. The results have clinical applications and address the need to have multiple story tellings.