Traumatic brain injury : traditional and narrative assessment techniques

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) causes impairment of executive functioning, as well as cognitive and language abilities of various degrees. Standard language tests currently focus on very specific language disorders and can not identify language disorders of TBI subjects with high-level language functioning. Although these standard tests can not adequately identify subtle language disorders, these TBI subjects lack cohesiveness in their conversation, which can have a strong effect on socialization. Through the use of narrative analysis, research in narrative and conversational discourse, which incorporates linguistic, cognitive skills, as well as executive functioning and social abilities, seems to be more appropriately address cohesive discourse of highlevel language functioning TBI subjects.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Professional and Technical Communication - (M.S.)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Humanities

Year

2006

Author dc:creator

• Katzman-Teller, Sharon M.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Norbert Elliot
• Nancy Coppola
• Robert Edward Lynch

• Traumatic brain injury
• Narrative analysis
• Narrative discourse
• Conversational discourse
• Technical and Professional Writing

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/theses/406

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.njit.edu:theses-1405