Background: Although there is a growing body of literature on cognitive and language processing in bilingual children with developmental language disorder (DLD), there is a major gap in the evidence for language intervention. Critically, speech-language therapists are often required to make clinical decisions for language intervention on specific…

Clinical Question: Do students with language disorders and those who have low language skills benefit more from classroom-based instruction on narratives or from instruction outside of the classroom to improve comprehension of and retelling of narratives? Method: Systematic Review. Search Terms: narrative intervention AND service delivery,…

Twenty narrative teaching strategies, used by speech-language pathologists in oral and written language instruction with students who have language learning disabilities, are described and categorized by narrative presentation stage. Language focus, grade/age level, and teaching context are suggested for each strategy. (Author/JDD)

This article on oral narratives in school-age children focuses on the changing demands from home to school use of narratives, developmental changes expected in school-age children, differences between narratives of children with and without language disorders, difficulties inherent in current assessment methods, and alternative assessment and…