ORAL NARRATIVE ASSESMENT of COHESION AMONG TURKISH CHILDREN

WITH ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER ( ADHD), LEARNING DISABILITY, AND COMPARISON CHILDREN

İlknur MAVİŞ, Nida ŞANLI, & Aslıhan ŞEN

Anadolu University

Center for Speech and Language Disorders

Narrative ability is one of the most informing and ecologically valid ways in which to measure communicative competence both in normal populations and in clinical groups.

Narrative may also prove to be good tool for distinguishing clinical groups who show overlapping symptoms which help us concentrate on specific behaviors on SLP therapy process. As part of a preliminary investigation examining possible similarities and differences across groups, 4 children with ADHD and 4 children learning disability were compared  to 4 children with typical developing characteristics on a short Picture based narrative using the Frog story, namely “ Frog, where are you? ( Mayer, 1969)”.

This study investigated the relation between children’s text comprehension, their ability to produce a coherent and cohesive story. With the purpose in mind, children were asked first to listen to the story on the tape looking at the related pictures and asked then to retell the story by looking the pictures in sequence. Not much probe was provided to the children. Each child’s tellings of the Frog story were transcribed; the transcribed narratives were coded in terms of three dimentions of narrative skill and analyzed by SALT Program. The mentioned codes were story grammar structure, linguistic complexity and evaluative information.

On going analyses will be expected to reveal the discrimination of two groups of children with ADHD and learning disability risk in terms of oral narration results which will be the explicit output of the competence. Besides, comparison children were expected to reveal their age-related communicative performances to let us measure the ineffiencies of the disabled children.

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