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This Peter and the Cat Narrative Comprehension Assessment (NCA) was developed as an assessment of discourse-level oral narrative comprehension in children. It is designed to be used only in conjunction with Peter and the Cat Narrative Assessment.
Our popular Peter and the Cat Narrative Assessment (app or hard copy) yields a descriptive profile of the child’s development of key narrative competencies. When you have purchased the Peter and the Cat Narrative Assessment (app or hard copy) assessment you also have free access to this Peter and the Cat NCA. The NCA provides separate literal and inferential scores, giving the clinician/teacher an understanding of the child’s ability to orally comprehend narratives at both a literal and inferential level.
The Narrative Comprehension Assessment is FREE to use in conjunction with the Peter and the Cat Narrative Assessment app or Peter and the Cat hard copy.
The Peter and the Cat Narrative Comprehension Assessment (NCA) was developed as an assessment of discourse-level oral narrative comprehension in young children. It was developed as part of doctoral research at Curtin University in Western Australia, which investigated oral inferential comprehension in young children with developmental language disorder (Dawes, 2017)
The NCA provides separate literal and inferential scores, giving the clinician/teacher an understanding of the child’s ability to orally comprehend narratives at both a literal and inferential level. The Peter and the Cat NCA was used as a measure of narrative comprehension generalisation in the randomised controlled trial of an oral inferential comprehension book-sharing intervention (Dawes, Leitão, Claessen, & Kane, under review).
Guideline reference data is available for the Peter & the Cat Narrative Comprehension Assessment, click here
For background see the related paper, click here
The doctoral thesis for which this assessment was developed is freely available at: https://espace.curtin.edu.au/handle/20.500.11937/56528
For information on the research behind this assessment and the work currently being carried out by the group ‘Language and Literacy in Young People’ a thriving group of researchers and HDR students led by A/Prof Suze Leitão visit: https://www.languageandliteracyinyoungpeople.com/ The group carry out research to inform our understanding of oral language development and disorders in children and young people, as well as the domains of reading and spelling (literacy) and the impacts of these on mental health and well being.
The instructions and printable forms for the Peter and the Cat Narrative Comprehension Assessment (NCA) are free to download, click here.
Interactive PDFs for the two Question, Response & Scoring Forms are available to download, click here,