American Speech Language Hearing Association

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools

, volume 51 , issue 4 , pages 1081-1096

Narrative Intervention: Principles to Practice

Trina D. Spencer ¹

Douglas B. Petersen ²

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Department of Child and Family Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa |

Department of Communication Disorders, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2020-10-02

American Speech Language Hearing Association

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools

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SJR: 1.124

CiteScore: 4.4

Impact factor: 2.9

ISSN: 01611461, 15589129

DOI: 10.1044/2020_LSHSS-20-00015

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PubMed ID: 32776816

Linguistics and Language

Language and Linguistics

Speech and Hearing

Abstract

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.

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DO - 10.1044/2020_LSHSS-20-00015

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TI - Narrative Intervention: Principles to Practice

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AU - Spencer, Trina D.

AU - Petersen, Douglas B.

PY - 2020

DA - 2020/10/02

PB - American Speech Language Hearing Association

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@article{2020_Spencer,

author = {Trina D. Spencer and Douglas B. Petersen},

title = {Narrative Intervention: Principles to Practice},

journal = {Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools},

year = {2020},

volume = {51},

publisher = {American Speech Language Hearing Association},

month = {oct},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_LSHSS-20-00015},

number = {4},

pages = {1081--1096},

doi = {10.1044/2020_LSHSS-20-00015}

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Spencer, Trina D., and Douglas B. Petersen. “Narrative Intervention: Principles to Practice.” Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, vol. 51, no. 4, Oct. 2020, pp. 1081-1096. https://doi.org/10.1044/2020_LSHSS-20-00015.

Publisher

American Speech Language Hearing Association

Journal

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools

scimago Q1

wos Q1

SJR

1.124

CiteScore

4.4

Impact factor

2.9

ISSN

01611461 (Print)

15589129 (Electronic)