Students were given a poem task, story task and a paradoxes task as pretests and posttests.
The Mental Stories of the Strange Stories task correlated with the General Communication Composite (r=0.49, p=0.04, 95% CI=0.1 0.8) and pragmatic language measures (r=0.51, p=0.03, 95% CI=0.2 0.8) but this was only the case in the generalized epilepsy group.
Twenty-one unilaterally brain damaged signers (13 left hemisphere damaged, 8 right hemisphere damaged) were presented with a story narration task designed to elicit both lexical and classifier signs.
Both groups of children with epilepsy performed more poorly than control children on the Mental Stories component of the Strange Stories task, F 2,101)=3.2, p<0.001.
This was the case for the Strange Stories task, but not the Mind in the Eyes task.
14 The Strange Stories task consists of 16 short passages each followed by a test question.
The Strange Stories task was used as a general measure of mental state understanding.
In terms of the coding of responses in the Strange Stories task, a second coder, blind to group assignment and study hypotheses, examined 50% of responses, with interobserver agreement found to be high (κ=0.81).
This short form has good internal reliability (0.932) as well as good validity (0.909) with Full-scale IQ. 23 Two tasks were included as measures of social understanding, the revised version of the Strange Stories task 13 and the child version of the Mind in the Eyes task.
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