Closed-Head-Injured Children’s Performance on Narrative Tasks

1991 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 572-582 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faye M. Jordan ◽  
Bruce E. Murdoch ◽  
Debbie L. Buttsworth
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Story Grammar ◽  
Head Injured ◽  
Closed Head ◽  
Narrative Ability

Stories were elicited from a group of 20 closed-head-injured children. Story grammar and intersentential cohesion were examined. Performance of the head-injured children was compared to that of a group of nonneurologically impaired accident victims matched for age, sex, and socioeconomic status. No significant differences were found between the performance of the closed-head-injured children and the matched controls on any of the measures of narrative ability applied to the elicited narratives.

Effects of Elicitation Procedures on the Narratives of Normal and Closed Head-Injured Adults

1989 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 356-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Betty Z. Liles ◽  
Carl A. Coelho ◽  
Robert J. Duffy ◽  
Mary Rigdon Zalagens
Keyword(s):  
Language Skills ◽  
Sentence Production ◽  
Story Grammar ◽  
Generation Task ◽  
Story Retelling ◽  
Story Generation ◽  
Language Recovery ◽  
Head Injured ◽  
Closed Head ◽  
High Level

Stories were elicited under two conditions—story retelling and story generation—from a group of 23 normal young adults and 4 closed head-injured (CHI) adults who had reached a high level of language recovery. Sentence production, intersentential cohesion, and story grammar were analyzed. The results demonstrated that the two elicitation tasks differentially influenced the performance of both normal and CHI subjects at all levels of analysis, and the two groups differed in the cohesive and story grammar measures only in the story generation task. It is concluded that comparing performance across tasks of story retelling and story generation is a useful procedure for characterizing the discourse problems of CHI subjects with recovery of high-level language skills.

Local cerebral glucose abnormalities in mild closed head injured patients with cognitive impairments

1989 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 335-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARK S. HUMAYUN ◽  
SHARON K. PRESTY ◽  
NORMAN D. LAFRANCE ◽  
HENRY H. HOLCOMB ◽  
HARRY LOATS ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Impairments ◽  
Head Injured ◽  
Closed Head ◽  
Injured Patients ◽  
Glucose Abnormalities

Memory Strategies for Closed-Head-Injured Patients.

2018 ◽  
pp. 117-144
Author(s):  
B.G. Deelman ◽  
I.J. Berg ◽  
M. Koning-Haanstra
Keyword(s):  
Memory Strategies ◽  
Head Injured ◽  
Closed Head ◽  
Injured Patients

Speed-accuracy trade-off in closed head-injured outpatients

1985 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. S41
Author(s):  
Diana Deacon-Elliott ◽  
K. Campbell ◽  
B. Suffield ◽  
I. Bell
Keyword(s):  
Trade Off ◽  
Head Injured ◽  
Closed Head ◽  
Speed Accuracy

scholarly journals Word-finding strategies in closed head injured adults

1988 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Juleen Kleiman ◽  
Lesley Bucke
Keyword(s):  
Head Injury ◽  
Closed Head Injury ◽  
Differential Effectiveness ◽  
Language Deficit ◽  
Word Finding ◽  
Confrontation Naming ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Head Injured ◽  
Closed Head ◽  
Injured Patients

Word-finding difficulties are a common and prominent language deficit following closed head injury. The word-finding difficulties of three closed head injured patients were investigated within the framework of compensatory strategies using Teicher's Taxonomy of Word-Finding Strategies (Teicher, 1986). The word-finding difficulties were evaluated during procedural discourse and two confrontation naming conditions. Each subject's communicative competence and language ability was determined. Results indicated that all subjects employed a wide range of strategies, particularly during confrontation naming, but with differential effectiveness. A relationship was noted between the strategy's effectiveness and the subject's pragmatic ability. The results are discussed in the light of the existing literature on head injury. The theoretical and clinical implications are considered.

Social interaction following severe closed head injury

1987 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Elsass ◽  
G. Kinsella
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Behavioural Change ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Severely Injured ◽  
Psychiatric Disturbance ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Head Injured ◽  
Closed Head

SynopsisThis paper describes research which sought to investigate and describe the interpersonal relationships and vulnerability to psychiatric disturbance in severely closed head injured subjects. The head injured subjects were severely injured, with mild or extremely severely injured individuals being excluded from this study. Self-report by the injured individual was compared with relatives' reports. Fifteen head injured people were individually matched with non-head injured people from the general population who acted as controls. Each subject nominated one ‘close other’ for comparative interview. The dependent variables included interpersonal relationships, non-psychotic psychiatric disturbance and behavioural change.The head injured group differed significantly from the control group in the quantity of interaction but not in the perceived quality of interaction. The groups differed significantly on behavioural change. No significant difference was found between responses given by the head injured and their ‘close other’ compared with the controls. Deficient quantity of interpersonal relationships and greater vulnerability to psychiatric disorders was shown in this sample. Further research on the assessment of long-term social outcome and psychiatric stability in the head injured could assist in the improved long-term rehabilitation of the survivors.

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