The development of narrative abilities is an important achievement, and narratives play a
significant role in academic success. Children with language impairments experience …

This systematic review focuses on research articles published since 1980 that assess
outcomes of narrative-based language intervention for preschool and school-age children …

The landmark reference in the field, completely updated: a comprehensive treatment of a
disorder that is more prevalent than autism. Children with specific language impairment …

Abstract The Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN) was designed in
order to assess narrative skills in children who acquire one or more languages from birth or …

Purpose Narrative interventions are a class of language interventions that involve the use of
telling or retelling stories. Narrative intervention can be an efficient and versatile means of …

Narrative ability is one of the most interesting and ecologically valid ways in which to
measure communicative competence both in normal populations and in clinical groups …

Language performance in naturalistic contexts can be characterized by general measures of
productivity, fluency, lexical diversity, and grammatical complexity and accuracy. The use of …

To clarify the relationship between oral language and early reading development, the
authors administered to 39 children a broad range of oral language measures in 3 areas …

Purpose To evaluate the clinical utility of the narrative scoring scheme (NSS) as an index of
narrative macrostructure for young school-age children. Method Oral retells of a wordless …

In this study 538 children composed 1 oral and 1 written fictional story in both 2nd and 4th
grades. Each child represented 1 of 4 diagnostic groups: typical language (TL), specific …