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Narrative abilities of Croatian children with SLI

Narration in general and narration of children with specific language impairment (SLI) is not a broadly researched phenomenon in Croatia. The aim of this poster is to present two studies that examined the narrative skills of children with SLI. First study (Kelic, Hrzica, Kuvac Kraljevic 2011) compared narrative achievements of children with SLI with two groups of typically language developing children (TLD, chronological peers and chronological younger group) using unified stimuli, short and simple story. The aim of this research was to compare basic measures of language development (mean length of utterance in words, type-token ratio, lemma-token ratio and others) in groups of participants. Results showed that basic measures of language development differentiate among groups of participants: measures on the level of utterances and discourse showed statistically significant difference between SLI group and chronologically matched group with typical language development, but did not showed such difference between SLI group and younger group with typical language development. Measures of lexical development show similar tendencies, but not statistically significant differences. Second study (Bogetic, Arapovic, Kuvac Kraljevic, 2008) compared narrative structures of children with SLI with the narrative structures of TLD children. The results show that TLD children have more developed structure of narrative than children with SLI from the youngest ages. However, with the increase of age children with SLI improve their narrative structure and compensate for lacks that they had in younger ages.

narratives; specific language impairment; measures of language development

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