Rehabilitation of Narrative Language in Children With Hearing Impairment and Developmental Language Disorder

"Narrative language targets improving narrative macrostructure and microstructure.~The program will include 24 illustrated story sequences with a minimum of 5 sequences representing the main story elements: characters and setting; problems; internal response; actions; and consequence. Story icons will be designed to represent the main 5 elements to accompany storytelling and act as visual prompts.~Each story will reflect specific content with several target vocabulary words and complex morphosyntax. Each story will be followed by comprehension questions to facilitate understanding and answering question about stories.~The following procedure will be implemented with each story: Modeling, answering comprehension questions, retelling with icons and colored illustrations, retelling with icons only, and retelling without icons. This procedure is adapted from story champs intervention program"

Language rehabilitation targets improving semantics, syntax, pragmatics and phonology.