Narrative Skills in Children with Language Delay

• Main Authors: Ai-Ju Wu, 吳璦如
• Other Authors: Pao-Chuan Torng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89423481856727079068

碩士 === 國立台北護理學院 === 聽語障礙科學研究所 === 97 === Narrative development is an important part of language development in children, and is strongly related to the later literacy achievement. Analyzing narrative enable speech language pathologists understand children’s language abilities and their literacy skills in the future. The purpose of this investigation is to determine the narrative skills in children with language delay and compare them with children who are not language delay. There are 25 children with language delay and 24 children with normal language development between the age of 4:2 and 6:6 in this study. Children retell one story and then answer 7 comprehension questions after retelling story. Stein and Glenn’s (1979) story grammar rules are used to analyze the narratives. The finding of this investigation indicate that children with language delay have poorer narrative skills than their normal peers, and are similar to the younger normal children. Both groups of children have the same components in their narratives, but compare with the normal peers, children with language delay have premature narratives. According to that, children with language delay need early intervention to enhance their language abilities and shorter the gap between their peers.