Yael Orbach

TL;DR: How the results of research on children's memory, communicative skills, social knowledge, and social tendencies can be translated into guidelines that improve the quality of forensic interviews of children is shown.

TL;DR: The findings confirmed that implementation of professionally recommended practices affected the behavior of interviewers in both the pre-substantive and substantive phases of their interviews and enhanced the quality of information elicited from alleged victims.

TL;DR: More details were elicited from older than from younger children in response to all types of prompts, but there were no age differences in the proportion of details elicited using invitations or cued invitations.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that children respond more informatively to an open-ended invitation when they have previously been trained to answer such questions rather than more focused questions.

TL;DR: One hundred alleged victims of child sexual abuse (ages 4-12 years; M = 8.1 years) were interviewed by police investigators about their alleged experiences as mentioned in this paper, and half of the children were interviewed using the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's structured interview protocol, whereas the other children--matched with respect to their age, relationship with the alleged perpetrator, and seriousness of the alleged offenses--were interviewed using standard interview practices.