Narrative Skill and Testimonial Accuracy in Typically Developing Children and Those with Intellectual Disabilities

Autor/inn/en	Brown, Deirdre A.; Brown, Emma-Jayne; Lewis, Charlie N.; Lamb, Michael E.
Titel	Narrative Skill and Testimonial Accuracy in Typically Developing Children and Those with Intellectual Disabilities
Quelle	In: Applied Cognitive Psychology, 32 (2018) 5, S.550-560 (11 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Brown, Deirdre A.) ORCID (Lewis, Charlie N.) ORCID (Lamb, Michael E.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0888-4080
DOI	10.1002/acp.3427
Schlagwörter	Children; Mild Intellectual Disability; Moderate Intellectual Disability; Preadolescents; Child Abuse; Severity (of Disability); Recall (Psychology); Self Disclosure (Individuals); Accuracy; Personal Narratives; Court Litigation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; Abuse of children; Abuse; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Schweregrad; Abberufung; Erlebniserzählung; Rechtsstreit
Abstract	Children must describe maltreatment coherently for their testimony to be influential in court. We know little about how well children with intellectual disabilities (CWID) describe their experiences relative to typically developing (TD) children, despite CWID's vulnerability to maltreatment. We investigated children's reports of an experienced event and compared coherence in CWID (mild to moderate impairment: 7-11 years) with TD children matched for mental (4-10 years) or chronological age (7-11 years). All children included important markers of narrative coherence in their reports. Children with lower mental ages, particularly those with an intellectual disability, included fewer markers of narrative coherence in their reports than children with higher mental ages. Individual markers of narrative coherence, particularly recall of content, predicted accuracy of testimony and resistance to suggestion even when disability and mental age were taken into account. These findings highlight the importance of helping children to describe their experiences coherently. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01