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Snow, Pamela C.; Powell, Martine B.; Sanger, Dixie D. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2012
Purpose: This paper highlights the forensic implications of language impairment in 2 key (and overlapping) groups of young people: identified victims of maltreatment (abuse and/or neglect) and young offenders. Method: Two lines of research pertaining to oral language competence and young people's interface with the law are considered: 1 regarding…
Descriptors: Oral Language, Competence, Language Impairments, Crime
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Murfett, Romana; Powell, Martine B.; Snow, Pamela C. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2008
Background: This study examined the ability of 78 children (aged 9-12 years) with an intellectual disability (ID) to provide a narrative account of a staged event they had participated in four days earlier. Method: The children were interviewed using open-ended questions. The quality of their responses (using a story grammar framework) was…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Story Grammar, Mental Age, Mental Retardation