Here is the abstract from Emma Higgins’ final year research project, supervised by Dr Cristina McKean and Dr Carolyn Letts.<\/p>\n
Listen, we have something to say: Developing methods for eliciting, analysing and understanding children\u2019s stories about themselves<\/strong><\/p>\n This study aimed to evaluate methods of eliciting and analysing typically developing children\u2019s personal narratives to inform the development of a method for assessing the personal narratives of children with developmental language disorder (DLD).\u00a0 To do this, it evaluated, using ten-year-old children, the elicitation method for children\u2019s personal narratives designed by the IALP Child Language Committee.\u00a0 It also evaluated two methods for analysing children\u2019s personal narratives, a structural focused analysis method and a coherence focused analysis method, in relation to children with DLD.\u00a0 It found the elicitation method enabled children of a range of abilities to tell a range of personal narratives.\u00a0 It also found, with development of both approaches, a combination of the two analysis methods has potential to provide a reliable and sensitive analysis method providing useful information for the diagnosis of and intervention planning in DLD.<\/p>\n Key words: Developmental Language Disorders, Qualitative Data analysis, Quantitative Data analysis<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here is the abstract from Emma Higgins’ final year research project, supervised by Dr Cristina McKean and Dr Carolyn Letts. Listen, we have something to say: Developing methods for eliciting, analysing and understanding children\u2019s stories about themselves This study aimed … Continue reading