Analysis of children's spoken narratives represents a potentially informative approach to
language assessment within early childhood settings. Yet, narrative assessment is not …

Purpose Narrative skill, a child's ability to create a temporally sequenced account of an
experience or event, is considered an important domain of children's language …

The assessment of discourse skills in young children is an important responsibility facing
clinicians today. Early identification of problems in discourse skills and, more specifically …

Purpose Both narrative language samples and norm-referenced language tests can be
important components of language assessment for school-age children. The present study …

Analysis of children's productions of oral narratives provides a rich description of children's
oral language skills. However, measures of narrative organization can be directly affected by …

This review and analysis of the literature on narrative discourse in children places particular
emphasis on children with language disorder. The review (a) describes theoretical …

Background This study examined the narrative skills of Cantonese-speaking school-age
children to fill a need for a normative language test for school-age children. Purpose To …

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 …

The ability to understand and create stories and explanations plays an important role in the
acquisition of literacy. This article describes how clinicians can use an assessment process …

Purpose This study had 4 primary purposes:(a) to describe the oral narrative performance of
typically developing African American prekindergarten children with commonly used macro …