ImpulsivityBank Protocol: Standardized Discourse Protocol for the Investigation of Speech in Relation to Impulsivity Trait in Children and Adolescents

Impulsivity is a common trait of various mental disorders having a high worldwide prevalence in childhood and adolescence, such as ADHD and conduct disorders. We propose the ImpulsivityBank protocol, a standardized discourse protocol and a battery of linguistic assessments. Our research aims to provide standardized procedures for retrieving speech samples that enable the determination of the speech features related to impulsivity trait in children and adolescents. We also report on the Impulsivity corpus, a new corpus that consists of speech samples collected using our protocol. Our protocol and corpus are resources that facilitate the investigation of speech in relation to impulsivity trait in children and adolescents. Our protocol is different from current studies because we use different elicitation methods (recall task, storyboard, and picture description) in the same participants to recollect diverse speech samples. Thus, we incorporated traditional elicitation methods that are present in similar studies and existing clinical language banks, in order to promote comparisons between our findings and other research.