title: Narrative skills in Swedish children with language impairment.
abstract: This study investigated the development of narrative skills in Swedish children with language impairment between age 5 and age 10. Seventeen children with LI and two control groups of age peers with typical development participated in a picture elicited story telling task. Analyses included measures of story content, cohesion and grammar. Our subjects showed development in different areas from age 5 to 10, but they did not perform at the level of the controls at age 10 on number of different verbs used and percent grammatically correct C-units. We conclude that preschool children with LI develop in their narrative skills over time, but not to the level of their age-peers at age 10.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  The reader will be able to describe areas of vulnerability in Swedish-speaking children with language impairment in general, and related to narration in particular. Furthermore, the reader will be able to describe similarities in narrative skills between Swedish-speaking and English-speaking children with language impairment.
authors.affiliation: New York University, Department of Communicative Sciences and Disorders, New York, NY 10012, USA. ecw4@nyu.edu
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Reuterskiöld
authors.forename: Kristina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hansson
authors.forename: Birgitta
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sahlén
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D002663:Child Language; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D033262:Narration; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D013548:Sweden; D014825:Vocabulary