Νarrative skills and Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) in Greek
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2023/14/0015/000609Keywords:
Narrative skills, Developmental Language Disorder, Macrostructure, Preschool and school-aged childrenAbstract
Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), previously known as Specific Language Impairment (SLI), is a common developmental disorder that affects both preschool and school-aged children. The language characteristics of children with DLD vary considerably, with the main challenge being the learning of language structures and morphosyntactic and lexical limitations. In this paper, the narrative skills of ten preschool and school-aged monolingual children (five with DLD and five with TD), aged 5 to 11 years and matched on chronological age, are examined at a macrostructure level using the most common methods of evaluating narrative skills: a) story retelling with pictures and b) storytelling with pictures. Our results showed that the narrative abilities of children with DLD are more affected at the level of macrostructure than those of children with TD, especially in the parameters of story structure and structural complexity in retelling with pictures, and in the parameter of story structure in storytelling with pictures. Yet, in the case of internal state terms, TD and DLD children seem to perform similarly in both elicitation modes.
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