Understanding cognitive and psychosocial correlates of spoken discourse skills in adolescents with and without acquired brain injury.

Many adolescents with a brain injury have difficulties with everyday communication, or discourse, and therefore intervention at the discourse level is crucial. However, tools to assess adolescent discourse are scarce. Lizz’s PhD consisted of the development of a much needed discourse assessment too...

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Main Author: Hill, Elizabeth Jane
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2020
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80842
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description Many adolescents with a brain injury have difficulties with everyday communication, or discourse, and therefore intervention at the discourse level is crucial. However, tools to assess adolescent discourse are scarce. Lizz’s PhD consisted of the development of a much needed discourse assessment tool, which enabled an exploration of the relationship between language, cognition and psychosocial health in teenagers without brain injury, and how they may relate to communication difficulties following brain injury
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-808422022-09-05T04:45:35Z Understanding cognitive and psychosocial correlates of spoken discourse skills in adolescents with and without acquired brain injury. Hill, Elizabeth Jane Many adolescents with a brain injury have difficulties with everyday communication, or discourse, and therefore intervention at the discourse level is crucial. However, tools to assess adolescent discourse are scarce. Lizz’s PhD consisted of the development of a much needed discourse assessment tool, which enabled an exploration of the relationship between language, cognition and psychosocial health in teenagers without brain injury, and how they may relate to communication difficulties following brain injury 2020 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80842 Curtin University fulltext
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Understanding cognitive and psychosocial correlates of spoken discourse skills in adolescents with and without acquired brain injury.
title Understanding cognitive and psychosocial correlates of spoken discourse skills in adolescents with and without acquired brain injury.
title_full Understanding cognitive and psychosocial correlates of spoken discourse skills in adolescents with and without acquired brain injury.
title_fullStr Understanding cognitive and psychosocial correlates of spoken discourse skills in adolescents with and without acquired brain injury.
title_full_unstemmed Understanding cognitive and psychosocial correlates of spoken discourse skills in adolescents with and without acquired brain injury.
title_short Understanding cognitive and psychosocial correlates of spoken discourse skills in adolescents with and without acquired brain injury.
title_sort understanding cognitive and psychosocial correlates of spoken discourse skills in adolescents with and without acquired brain injury.
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80842