Story Discourse and Use of Mental State Language between Mothers and School-Aged Children with and without Visual Impairment

Autor/inn/en	Tadic, Valerija; Pring, Linda; Dale, Naomi
Titel	Story Discourse and Use of Mental State Language between Mothers and School-Aged Children with and without Visual Impairment
Quelle	In: International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 48 (2013) 6, S.679-688 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1368-2822
DOI	10.1111/1460-6984.12040
Schlagwörter	Children; Visual Impairments; Mothers; Language Usage; Interpersonal Communication; Interpersonal Competence; Comparative Analysis; Story Reading; Scaffolding (Teaching Technique) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Visual handicap; Sehbehinderung; Mother; Mutter; Sprachgebrauch; Interpersonale Kommunikation; Interpersonale Kompetenz
Abstract	Background: Lack of sight compromises insight into other people's mental states. Little is known about the role of maternal language in assisting the development of mental state language in children with visual impairment (VI). Aims: To investigate mental state language strategies of mothers of school-aged children with VI and to compare these with mothers of comparable children with typically developing vision. To investigate whether the characteristics of mother-child discourse were associated with the child's socio-communicative competence. Methods & Procedures: Mother-child discourse with twelve 6-12-year-old children with VI was coded during a shared book-reading narrative and compared with 14 typically sighted children matched in age and verbal ability. Outcomes & Results: Mothers of children with VI elaborated more and made significantly more references to story characters' mental states and descriptive elaborations than mothers of sighted children. Mental state elaborations of mothers in the VI group related positively with the level produced by their children, with the association remaining after mothers' overall verbosity and children's developmental levels were controlled for. Frequency of maternal elaborations, including their mental state language, was related to socio-communicative competence of children with VI. Conclusions & Implications: The findings offer insights into the potential contribution of maternal verbal scaffolding to mentalistic language and social-communicative competences of children with VI. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10