Oral Narrative Intervention by Tele-Practice in a Case with Developmental Language Disorder

Area of Science:

• Speech and Language Therapy
• Child Language Development
• Telepractice in Education

Background:

• Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) impacts narrative skills in children.
• Children with DLD often struggle with integrating linguistic and cognitive abilities for storytelling.
• This research focuses on a specific case study of a child with DLD.

Purpose of the Study:

• To improve oral narrative skills in a child with DLD.
• To investigate the effectiveness of a telepractice-based intervention.
• To utilize a story retelling task for language intervention.

Main Methods:

• A case study involving a 9-year-old child with DLD.
• Standardized tests and a story recall task ('The Lost Backpack').
• 10 telepractice sessions via Skype focusing on narrative structure and discourse markers.

Main Results:

• Improvements in narrative microstructure and macrostructure observed.
• Increased Mean Length of Utterance (MLU), vocabulary, and discourse markers.
• Enhanced recall of story events and overall cohesion.

Conclusions:

• Telepractice intervention is effective for enhancing narrative skills in children with DLD.
• Oral story retelling with visual support via telepractice yields positive outcomes.
• This approach offers a viable remote therapy option for language disorders.