Joan Manhardt|Leslie Rescorla
Oral narrative skills of late talkers at ages 8 and 9
Bryn Mawr College|Bryn Mawr College
study compared oral narrative skills 31 schoolaged children diagnosed 24 31 months expressive language delay late talkers 23 typically developing peers based upon extensively studied picturebook task frog narratives elicited participants age 8 age 9 age 9 children asked tell story increase references evaluative information characters emotions character speech causal explanations events supported telling condition groups compared syntax story grammar cohesion evaluative information factor scores derived narrative measures children histories early language delay obtained lower syntax story grammar evaluative information factor scores typically developing peers three narrative productions late talkers scored average range age 8 clinical evaluation language fundamentalsrevised celfr scores significantly lower comparison peers group differences story grammar factor reanalyzed celfr score covariate late talkers demonstrated weaknesses story grammar skills independent variance accounted weaker general language skills suggests use narrative structure may specific area underachievement late talkers addition continuing weakness syntactic lexical abilities relative typically developing peers ses background