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Strategies of multimodality in communication following traumatic brain injury in adolescence
Proceedings of the 3rd Nordic Symposium on Multimodal Communication.
Editors: Patrizia Paggio, Elisabeth Ahlsén, Jens Allwood,
Kristiina Jokinen, Costanza Navarretta.
NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol. 15 (2011), 78–86.
© 2011 The editors and contributors.
Published by
Northern European Association for Language
Technology (NEALT)
http://omilia.uio.no/nealt .
Electronically published at
Tartu University Library (Estonia)
http://hdl.handle.net/10062/22532
Communication in children and adolescents after acquired brain injury: An exploratory study
Objective: The usability of the Communicative Effectiveness Index (CETI) in
adolescents with acquired brain injury was investigated and compared
with linguistic, cognitive and brain injury data.
Design: A prospective, longitudinal, between-group design.
Subjects: Thirty participants were divided into 2 subgroups: CETI+ and CETI−
groups.
Methods: Parental CETI ratings of daily communication were compared with
linguistic data and IQ test results. Lesion site and aetiology were
also studied.
Results: The CETI+ group (n = 16) had a mean score greater than 75 out of
100, while the mean score of the CETI− group (n = 14) was below 75.
Complex daily communication was impaired in both groups, but the
CETI− group scored significantly lower on verbal IQ and grammar
comprehension tests and had more naming difficulties. A majority of
subjects in the CETI− group had a left hemisphere injury. Traumatic
vs non-traumatic acquired brain injury did not differentiate the
results.
Conclusion: Specific complex CETI items provided unique information that is not
easily measured by linguistics and cognitive tests for use with the
acquired brain injury group. Parental evaluations of communication
skills were well reflected in language and verbal IQ test results.
Left hemisphere injury was associated with poorer communication
outcome