TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Patterns of narrative discourse in early recovery following severe traumatic brain injury
JO  - Brain injury
A1  - Power, Emma
A1  - Weir, Stephanie
A1  - Richardson, Jessica
A1  - Fromm, Davida
A1  - Forbes, Margaret
A1  - MacWhinney, Brian
A1  - Togher, Leanne
SP  - ePub
EP  - ePub
VL  - ePub
IS  - ePub
N2  - <b>Primary Objective</b>: To investigate the nature and patterns of narrative discourse impairment in people with severe Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) during early recovery.<b>Methods and Procedures</b>: A single image picture description task was administered to 42 participants with severe TBI at 3 and 6-months post-injury. The same task was administered to 37 control participants. Discourse samples were analyzed with measures of productivity, informativeness and story organization. The performance of people with TBI was compared with the control group at both 3 and 6 months, and the performance of the participants with TBI was also compared across the two time points. Individual patterns of performance were also examined.<b>Results</b>: Inferential analyses revealed significant differences between the control group and the group with TBI on informativeness at both time points and  number of complete episodes at 3 months, but no significant differences for productivity measures. There was no significant change for the group with TBI between 3 and 6 months. However, individual improvement over time was observed.<b>Conclusions</b>: People with TBI have discourse difficulties early post TBI that are also present at 6-months post-injury. In order to understand longer-term discourse recovery, it is necessary to examine participant patterns over further time points on this narrative task.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0269-9052
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699052.2019.1682192
ID  - ref1
ER  -