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The Squirrel Story Narrative Comprehension Assessment (NCA) was developed as an assessment of discourse-level oral narrative comprehension in young children. It is designed only to be used in conjunction with the Squirrel Story Narrative Assessment app or hard copy. The App or hard copy Squirrel Story Narrative assessment provide a profile around 6 key areas of narrative in young children (Gesture/nonverbal skills; Vocabulary; Listening and Attention skills; Levels of language used (syntax); Story structure; Story content).
When you have purchased the Squirrel Story Narrative assessment App or hard copy you also have free access to this NCA which tests a child’s understanding of narrative at discourse level. The NCA provides separate literal and inferential scores, giving the clinician an understanding of the child’s ability to orally comprehend narratives at both a literal and inferential level. The NCA provides clinicians and teachers with an assessment tool which can support the development of intervention goals.
This assessment is free for use in conjunction with the Squirrel Story Narrative Assessment app or hard copy .
The Squirrel Story 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 doctoral thesis for which this assessment was developed is freely available from: https://espace.curtin.edu.au/handle/20.500.11937/56528
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 NCA was used to investigate the literal and inferential comprehension skills of young typically developing (TD) children aged between 4 and 6 years and to compare the performance of 5-year-old TD children and those with developmental language disorder (DLD). A total of 132 typically developing children across three age groups between 4 to 6 years, and 94 children with DLD aged 5 years, were assessed using the NCA.
Dawes, E. Leitão, S., Claessen, M. (2019) Oral literal and inferential narrative comprehension in young typically developing children and children with developmental language disorder. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology. 21 (3), 275-285.
For information on the research behind this assessment and and the work currently being carried out by the the group ‘Language and Literacy in Young People’ a thriving group of researchers and HDR students led by A/Prof Suze Leitão, see 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).
The instructions and printable forms for the Squirrel Story Narrative Comprehension Assessment (NCA) are free to download, click here.
Interactive PDFs for the two Question, Response & Scoring Forms are available, click here,
The Squirrel Story Assessment is available in hard copy form and as an app
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