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Publication Date: 2020-Oct
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Narrative Intervention: Principles to Practice
Spencer, Trina D.; Petersen, Douglas B.
Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, v51 n4 p1081-1096 Oct 2020
Purpose: Narrative interventions are a class of language interventions that involve the use of telling or retelling stories. Narrative intervention can be an efficient and versatile means of promoting a large array of academically and socially important language targets that improve children's access to general education curriculum and enhance their peer relations. The purpose of this tutorial is to supply foundational information about the importance of narratives and to offer recommendations about how to maximize the potential of narrative interventions in school-based clinical practice. Method: Drawing from decades of cognitive and linguistic research, a tutorial on narratives and narrative language is presented first. Ten principles that support the design and implementation of narrative interventions are described. Results: Clinicians can use narrative intervention to teach story grammar, complex language, vocabulary, inferencing, and social pragmatics. Storytelling, as an active intervention ingredient, promotes the comprehension and production of complex language. Conclusion: When narrative intervention is implemented following a set of principles drawn from research and extensive clinical experience, speech-language pathologists can efficiently and effectively teach a broad set of academically and socially meaningful skills to diverse students.
Descriptors: Story Telling, Intervention, Language Skills, Teaching Methods, Grammar, Vocabulary, Inferences, Pragmatics, Comprehension, Oral Language, Metalinguistics, Generalization, Student Participation, Visual Aids, Feedback (Response), Prompting, Individualized Instruction
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