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Profiling oral narrative ability in young school-aged children.

Marleen F Westerveld¹, Gail T Gillon

¹School of Literacies and Arts in Education, College of Education, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand. marleen.westerveld@canterbury.ac.nz

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This study introduces the Profile of Oral Narrative Ability (PONA) for assessing young children's language skills. The PONA effectively identifies strengths and weaknesses in oral narrative abilities through story retelling tasks.

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Area of Science:

Linguistics
Developmental Psychology
Speech-Language Pathology

Background:

Assessing oral narrative ability is crucial for identifying language impairments in children.
Existing methods may not fully capture the nuances of narrative skills.
A standardized tool is needed to profile strengths and weaknesses in oral narrative ability.

Observation:

A story retelling task was field-tested with 169 typically developing children aged 5 to 7.5 years.
Children listened to a story twice and then retold it without picture cues.
Analyses included semantics, morphosyntax, verbal productivity, and narrative quality.

Findings:

The Profile of Oral Narrative Ability (PONA) showed age sensitivity in comprehension, narrative quality, semantics, and verbal productivity.
Morphosyntactic measures did not demonstrate significant age sensitivity.
Factor analysis revealed three underlying factors explaining over 80% of the variance in oral narrative performance.

Implications:

The PONA shows potential for differentiating patterns of strengths and weaknesses in children's oral narrative skills.
Clinical case examples illustrate the tool's utility in identifying individual profiles.
Further research is required to establish the PONA's validity, reliability, and clinical applicability.