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Brown, Deirdre A.; Lamb, Michael E. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2019
In this brief review, we reflect upon the key contributions of research examining children's eyewitness testimony. Children's testimonial ability became a focus of interest for researchers about 40 years ago in the wake of several high-profile child abuse cases that prompted questions about children's reliability in the face of problematic…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Reliability, Accuracy, Children
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Brown, Deirdre A.; Brown, Emma-Jayne; Lewis, Charlie N.; Lamb, Michael E. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2018
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…
Descriptors: Children, Mild Intellectual Disability, Moderate Intellectual Disability, Preadolescents