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Predictive value of dynamic assessment on future narrative skills in French-speaking children with developmental
Olivia Hadjadj1, Margaret Kehoe1, Hélène Delage1
1Équipe de Psycholinguistique et Logopédie, Faculté de Psychologie et des Sciences de l'Éducation, Université de Genève, Genève, Suisse.
Abstract:
In children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD), static assessment of narrative as well as Dynamic Assessment (DA) of syntax for instance can predict their future language skills. However, the predictive value of a DA of narrative has never been explored. This study addresses that gap. Twenty-one children with DLD (Mage = 9;5) completed a DA with a pre-test/teaching/post-test procedure, followed by a Delayed Post-test (DP) 12 weeks later. In pre-, post-test and DP, children engaged in a story generation (Story 1) and two story-retellings (Stories 2 and 3). The teaching phase of the DA targeted macro- and microstructure of Story 2. Our results showed that our DA of narrative enabled the prediction of DP scores 12 weeks later, only by considering macrostructure. As for microstructure, the pre-test of our DA was the best predictive measure. Our study adds to the existing literature on predictors of narrative skills.
