PERFORMANCE ON CREATIVE NARRATIVE TASKS OF CHILDREN TREATED FOR ACUTELYMPHOCYTIC-LEUKEMIA

Twenty-three children who had completed treatment for acute lymphocyti c leukaemia (ALL) and 23 age- and sex-matched non-neurologically impai red controls generated a creative narrative in response to a character figurine. Story grammar, intersentential cohesion and developmental l evel were examined. No significant differences were found between the performance of the ALL group and the matched controls on the majority of the measures of narrative ability examined. The control subjects di d, however, produce more episodes containing initiating events than th e leukaemia group.