Original scientific paper

Narrative discourse of preschool children with specific language impairment

Diana Arapović ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Speech and Language Pathology
Marinka Grobler ; The Counselling Centre for Children, Adolescents and Parents, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Maša Jakubin ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Education and Rehabilitation Sciences, Laboratory for psycholinguistics POLIN

Abstract

Specific language impairment is a term used to describe children with intact hearing, no CNS damages, good nonverbal skills and normal intellectual and emotional development, whose linguistic development has not reached the level expected at their age. Such impairment involves all linguistic components (phonology, morphology,
semantics, syntax and pragmatics) or only one of them. During child development, dialogue comes first whereas the narrative skill is acquired later. The SLI children, during the whole preschool period, in most cases are not able to retell independently a story with a given theme. Also the stimuli for narration in SLI children have to be highly structured.

Keywords

specific language impairment; narrative discourse

Hrčak ID:

123820

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/123820

Publication date:

1.7.2010.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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