Elahe Kamari
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The aim of the present study is to investigate the ability of monolingual Farsi-speaking children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder in the narration of story. To this aim, 18 monolingual Farsi-speaking male student with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (with a mean age of 8 years ...
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The aim of the present study is to investigate the ability of monolingual Farsi-speaking children with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder in the narration of story. To this aim, 18 monolingual Farsi-speaking male student with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (with a mean age of 8 years and 2 months) and 18 normal monolingual Farsi-speaking male students (with a mean age of 7 years and 3 months) were selected. The students were matched on their cognitive and language abilities. Both groups were encouraged to narrate stories based on a picture story book. Their coherence was investigated on the basis of length of the story, variety of words, causal sentences, and causal networks. Findings did not indicate a statistical significant difference between the two groups in the basic narrative measures and in overtly causal sentences (p<0.05). The results of the study showed that the stories narrated by high-functioning autism spectrum disorder group were less causally connected and less coherent. However, this difference was not statistically significant. On the whole, it can be concluded that causal network model is an alternative way for investigating narrative coherence by examining how narrative information is interconnected at a deeper level.
Shahla Raghibdoust; Elahe Kamari
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Previous research showed that deaf individuals in compare to hearing ones perform weaker in syntactic processing. Therefore, they are expected to compensate for this defect through using their background knowledge. The aims of this study were to investigate the effect of deafness on the participants’ ...
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Previous research showed that deaf individuals in compare to hearing ones perform weaker in syntactic processing. Therefore, they are expected to compensate for this defect through using their background knowledge. The aims of this study were to investigate the effect of deafness on the participants’ ability to comprehend subject relative clauses, and to determine their strategies in comprehending the semantically plausible subject relative clauses and semantically implausible ones within the theoretical framework of Interactive-Compensatory Model (Stanovich, 1980). The performance of 4 profound deaf students in fifth grades as the experimental group and 4 healthy hearing students as the control group was studied in a cross-sectional research to evaluate their comprehension of semantically plausible subject relative clauses and semantically implausible ones. The findings of this research showed that there was no significant difference between the performance of the deaf and hearing participants in comprehending semantically plausible sentences (p>0/05). However, a significant difference between the performance of the two groups was observed with respect to their comprehension of semantically implausible sentences (p<0/05). Based on the analysis of the data, it was concluded that the difficulty that the deaf experimental group experienced in processing semantically implausible subject relative sentences can be attributed to their use of a top-down strategy in comprehending these syntactic structures.
