The objective of the present study was to examine associations between children's attachment behavior at early school-age, dimensions of narrative performance, and behavior problems as assessed in middle childhood. Children's attachment patterns with mother were assessed at age 6 ( N = 127) using the Main and Cassidy (1988) separation—reunion classification system. Two years later, these children ( N = 109) completed the Narrative Story Stem Battery (Bretherton, Oppenheim, Buchsbaum, Emde, & The MacArthur Narrative Group, 1990), and teachers rated their level of behavior problems using the Social Behavior Questionnaire (Tremblay, Vitaro, Gagnon, Piché, & Royer, 1992). Results indicated that secure children depicted fewer conflict themes in their narratives than did disorganized/controlling children, produced more discipline themes than avoidant children, and had higher coherence scores than ambivalent children. Avoidant children also depicted fewer conflict themes than disorganized/controlling children. Finally, children's narrative conflict themes significantly predicted both level of externalizing and total behavior problems, even after controlling for variance explained by gender and disorganized/controlling attachment behavior. Girls' narratives were more likely to evoke discipline and affection/affiliation themes, and to be more coherent than boys' narratives.
Bien que le trouble développemental du langage (TDL) soit fréquent (7,58 %; Norbury et al., 2016) et ait des impacts perdurant jusqu'à l’âge adulte (Feeney, Desha, Khan, Ziviani, & Nicholson, 2016), il est beaucoup moins connu que d’autres problématiques telles que le trouble du déficit de l’attention avec ou sans hyperactivité (TDAH) ou le trouble du spectre de l’autisme (TSA). L’inconstance des définitions selon les domaines (p. ex., médecine, éducation, psychologie, orthophonie) pourrait partiellement expliquer cette méconnaissance (Bishop, 2017). Depuis peu, une terminologie et une démarche menant au diagnostic de TDL font l’objet d’un consensus international multidisciplinaire, et ce, grâce au projet CATALISE (Bishop, Snowling, Thompson, Greenhalgh, & CATALISE-consortium, 2016, 2017). Le but de cet article est de présenter une mise à jour des enjeux et des connaissances actuelles liés au TDL en s’intéressant aux changements d’appellation et de critères initiés par le projet CATALISE. Pour les professionnels et chercheurs œuvrant dans le domaine, il s’agit d’une occasion de réfléchir aux besoins des personnes vivant avec un TDL.
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