Evidence Based Practice: Research Articles

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Evidence Based Practice: Research Articles

Dr. Lauren Franke, Psy.D., CCC-SP

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: Links to Research Articles for Narrative Development, Assessment & Therapy

Assessment of Preschool Narrative Skills

In this article the authors provide information concerningpreschool narrative development in typically developing, NorthAmerican, Caucasian, English-speaking children. Methods aresuggested for assessing narrative skill of children with languageimpairment and children developing language normally. Transcriptsof narratives from these children are presented, along withspecific recommendations for evaluating these narratives.

CIERA Report #3-012 "Children's Comprehension of Narrative Picture Books"

This paper explains the creation and validation of the Narrative Comprehension of Picture Books task (NC task), an assessment of young children's comprehension of wordless picture books.

CIERA Report #2-002 "Issues in Emergent Literacy for Children With Language Impairments"

In this paper, Kaderavek and Sulzby ask how findings from emergent literacy (the study of the reading and writing behaviors that develop into conventional literacy) can combine with findings from oral language development to expand the scope of services provided to preschoolers with language impairments.

Effectiveness of teaching story grammar knowledge to pre-school children with language impairment. An exploratory study

In this study, 13 preschool children with language impairment (ages from 4;8 to 6;4) participated in a narrative intervention program. Narrative intervention activities explicitly taught story grammar components.

Investigating Early Relationships Between Language and Emergent Literacy in Three and Four Year Old Children

This present study examines language production and emergent writing and drawing abilities in 3-year-old children.

Story Retelling in Four Year Olds: Narrative and Language Measures

This study examines the relations among narrative macrostructures and measures of oral language, nonverbal cognitive ability and emergent literacy.

Use of Narrative-Based Language Intervention With Children Who Have Specific Language Impairment

Ten 7�8-year-old children with specific language impairmentparticipated in a 6-week program of narrative-based languageintervention (NBLI) in an effort to evaluate NBLI's feasibility.