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Communication Disorders Quarterly
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Personal Narrative Structures of Children with Specific-Language Impairment

Lynn S. Bliss

Wayne State University

Karrie St. Pierre

Quincy Elementary School

The purpose of this investigation was to compare the narrative discourse of children with specific-language impairment (SLI)and children with normal language development (NL). Their personal narratives were analyzed for length, number and complexity of narrative structures. The categories described by Glenn and Stein (1980)were used to identify narrative structures. Differences between the groups were not obtained for length of narrative. The children with SLI produced fewer narrative structures and less complex ones than their peers with NL. They did not produce narrative structures in which aims, motivations, and consequences occurred as frequently as did the children with NL. Clinical considerations are discussed.

Communication Disorders Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 2, 11-18 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/152574019701800202
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