Narrative Discourse Intervention for School-Aged Children With Language Impairment: Supporting Knowledge in Language and Literacy

@article{Gillam2016NarrativeDI,
  title={Narrative Discourse Intervention for School-Aged Children With Language Impairment: Supporting Knowledge in Language and Literacy},
  author={Sandra L Gillam and Ronald B Gillam},
  journal={Topics in Language Disorders},
  year={2016},
  volume={36},
  pages={20–34}
}
Narrative language proficiency is a critical contributor to academic success for school-aged students. This article presents a narrative language intervention, Supporting Knowledge in Language and Literacy (SKILL), that is based on research in the fields of developmental psycholinguistics and discourse processing. SKILL was designed to provide school-age children with language learning difficulties with the cognitive and linguistic skills that underlie narrative comprehension and composition. A… 
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