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Brain injury children 'can't tell stories'RSS Feed
A child who has suffered a brain injury may find it hard to tell stories despite other language skills catching up with other children, a new study has claimed.
The team from the University of Chicago examined children who had suffered a form of brain injury known as pre or perinatal brain lesions.
Around one in every 4,000 children is thought to suffer from the condition, which mainly result from strokes.
The team looked at the story-telling ability of the children with brain injuries, analysing length, vocabulary diversity, syntactic complexity, overall structure and use of inference.
Children with brain injuries told shorter, less complex stories than children who had developed typically.
"Our findings suggest that there may be limitations to the remarkable flexibility for language functions displayed by children with brain injuries," said the study's lead author Ozlem Ece Demir.
It is unclear whether the findings suggest a permanent condition or one that may change over time as the children examined were just starting school.
In the UK, every 30 minutes a child acquires brain injury, according to the Child Brain Injury Trust.
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