UMIEJĘTNOŚĆ TWORZENIA OPISU I OPOWIADANIA PRZEZ DZIECI Z DYSFUNKCJAMI OŚRODKOWEGO UKŁADU NERWOWEGO
Ability to Form a Description and a Narration by Children with Dysfunctions of Central Nervous System

Summary/Abstract: The article is a presentation of part of the material obtained in the author’s own research of two groups of 14 children aged 6 to 8. The former one included children with various symptoms of speech disorders resulting from anatomic and/or function faults, the latter one was a control group consisting of children with correct speech development. A test checking ability to realize a description and a narration was aimed to acknowledge general communication behaviors of each child, vocabulary used by a child and the capacity and correctness of grammatical forms used by children. Test results might be crucial for speech diagnosis of each child used in the research. Genre qualities of both forms of narration were realized better by children without speech disorders. Both groups of children found it easier to describe a thematic picture. The resulting speeches had not yet fully developed structure of composition. In realization of a description and a narration by children having dysfunctions, apparently, there were great individual differences. In narrative texts of children with brain dysfunctions, there were numerous faults in word and sound structure. There is a register of utterances which cannot be identifi ed as Polish words and paraphasias and perseverations. In certain situations children with brain dysfunctions compensated their disability to produce the appropriate structure with gestures and onomatopoeias. Otherwise, they used demonstrative pronouns or answered nie wiem (‘I don’t know).

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