Jimmy's Narrative Abilities

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Jimmy exhibited flexible eye gaze during conversation, initiated and responded to social overtures and demonstrated adequate topic contingency. He provided information upon request and responded to conversational danglers.

A decontextualized narrative of a familiar movie (i.e., 2012) was elicited. Narrative abilities were an area of weakness for Jimmy as his descriptions were abbreviated and ambiguous, it was very difficult to understand what he was talking about. Jimmy required verbal scaffolding, in order to provide an ending.

The following is a transcription of Jimmy’s narrative production:
Okay there was this family where they lived in a house … they moved to California and then the world where they were XXX started shaking so then

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