Abstract

SORIANO-FERRER, Manuel  and  CONTRERAS-GONZALEZ, Ma. Carmen. Written Narration in Specific Language Impairment (SLI). Univ. Psychol. [online]. 2012, vol.11, n.4, pp.1341-1351. ISSN 1657-9267.

The present study examined the written narrations and the influence of linguistic measures on narrative competence of children with specific language impairment (SLI). A narration task was used to assess narrative abilities in 25 children with SLI and 25 normally developing children, matched on age and IQ. Results indicated that the two groups did differ in the production of narratives. The children with SLI provided short narratives, poorly organized and less cohesive. Also, writings were characterized by more syntax errors and had high proportion of phonologically inaccurate spelling errors. Hierarchical regression analysis showed that different linguistic measures - auditory comprehension, verbal fluency and sequential auditory memory - played a predictive role in narrative competence.

Keywords : Specific Language Impairment; Narrative Abilities; Story Grammar; Specific Language Impairment; Written Narration; Language.

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