Social information processing in adolescents: Data from normally developing adolescents and preliminary data from their peers with traumatic brain injury

Objective: To assess aspects of social information processing in naturalist ic conversations, using online videotape tasks. Design and Participants: Th e tasks were administered to 60 normally developing (ND) subjects ages 13 t o 21, and 10 adolescents with traumatic brain injury (TBT). Setting: Univer sity. Main Outcome Measure: Task accuracy scores and measures of reliabilit y, and validity Results and Conclusions: ND group scores were generally hig h, without significant differences by race, sex or age, TBI group scores we re significantly lower than ND group scores for both emotion recognition an d detection of conversation skills, The results are discussed in light of t he evaluation of pragmatic competence in adolescents with TBI.