Original Research
Narrative Discourse Productions in Older Language Impaired Learning Disabled Children: Employing Stricter Reliability Measures
South African Journal of Communication Disorders | Vol 46, No 1 | a727 |
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajcd.v46i1.727
| © 2020 Luanne Henshilwood, Dale Ogilvy
| This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 17 April 2020 | Published: 31 December 1999
Submitted: 17 April 2020 | Published: 31 December 1999
About the author(s)
Luanne Henshilwood, Department of Logopaedics, University of Cape Town, South AfricaDale Ogilvy, Department of Logopaedics, University of Cape Town, South Africa
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This study aimed to describe narrative discourse productions of older language impaired learning disabled (LILD) children, using stringent reliability measures. Coherence and cohesion were the measures of analysis employed. Content and clarity ratings provided a subjective analysis of narrative productions. Interrater and intrarater reliability measures were calculated and testing for stability of scores across three testing sessions were undertaken. The results indicated subtle differences in the coherence and cohesion of narrative productions in the LILD compared with controls. The findings of this study support past literature, which calls for greater research in this area using stricter reliability measures.
Keywords
narrative discourse; older language impaired learning disabled children; reliability measures in discourse.
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