Original scientific paper

Narration of children with special language impairment

Marinka Grobler
Diana Arapović

Abstract

Special language impairment (SLI) is a developmental disorder of various profiles and degrees of language impairment expressed in the contest of normal cognitive abilities, without presence of any known cause (Bishop, 1992, Leonard, 1998).The aim of this work was to explore the narration features and to determine the differences between the group of children with SLI and the group of children with normal language development. (NLD)This research was carried out on two samples of subjects.The first sample consisted of 71 children, which, due to diagnosed SLI were treated through speech and language therapy in “Svetovalni centar” (Council Center) and in “Zavod za gluhe in naglusne” (Institute for Deaf and hearing-impaired) in Lubiana.The control group consisted of 71 children with normal language development status.All the children attended first to fourth class of schools in Lubiana and its suburban region.Results have shown that the narration of the children with SLI
significantly differ from the narration of the children with NLD, in extensiveness as well as in quality.

Keywords

children with special language impairment; narration

Hrčak ID:

10637

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/10637

Publication date:

9.10.2006.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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