Narrative Relevance Analysis

Narrative Relevance Narrative relevance was determined by evaluating the importance of each T-Unit in developing the narrative. A 2-point rating system was used to determine the relevance of each statement. An utterance was given a 1 rating if the utterance was relevant and necessary to the story development. Conversely, a rating of 2 was given to the utterances that were irrelevant to the story and hindered the development of the story. Each T-Unit was given a relevancy rating, and the occurrence of each rating was totaled for each narrative.
Occurrence of Dysfluencies Dysfluencies were defined as any breaks or irregularities within speech. Dysfluencies interrupt cohesion and often makes speech more difficult to understand. The following …show more content…
A TTR evaluates the total number of different words used, or types, and the total number of words, or tokens, in a language sample. A TTR evaluates each participant’s use of a diverse vocabulary in each narrative. Each narrative was coded according to the Systematic Analysis of Language Transcription (SALT) Software Transcription Conventions (Miller, Andriacchi, and Nockerts, 2015; See Appendix D). The TTR was calculated by the SALT Software …show more content…
However, descriptive analysis of this data was performed. The four atypically aging participant’s data was separated from the typically aging population and the means and standard deviations were calculated for both groups. The mean results and standard deviations of the typically and atypically aging groups are shown in table 3. The participants with either a cognitive impairment or nervous system disorder used more t-units and cohesive ties than the typically aging group. Also, the group of impaired individuals had a lower relevancy rating than the typical group and had more dysfluencies in their narrative samples. Due to the small sample size, the results of this analysis are preliminary and further research on this population is required to validate these