Planning intervention for narrative comprehension deficits requires a thorough understanding of a child's skill in all component domains. The purpose of this study was to examine the validity of three methods of measuring pre-readers' event knowledge, an important predictor of story comprehension. Thirty-eight typically developing children (12…

Children with specific language impairment (SLI) often have extraordinary difficulty in the use of tense and agreement morphemes. Because spontaneous speech samples may not provide a sufficient number of obligatory contexts for these morphemes, structured probe items are often employed. However, these usually emphasize actions that can be readily…