This study is intended for investigating the effect of storyretelling program on the improvement of linguistic competence of 3 language delayed children.
The subjects are 5-6 years old who are developmentally retarded more than 1 year compared to n...
This study is intended for investigating the effect of storyretelling program on the improvement of linguistic competence of 3 language delayed children.
The subjects are 5-6 years old who are developmentally retarded more than 1 year compared to normal children on Pres and expressive linguistic competence above 3 years old.
This study utilized an A-B design with pre-test stage, treatment stage and post-stage, and the change in (1) Type-Token Ratio (2) semantic relation of language (3) mean length of utterance in morphemes (4) referential communicative competence were analyzed by collecting twice the speech samples in unstructured play situation between pathologist and children in the stage of pre-test stage and post-test stage.
The results showed the following:
First, the type-token ratio in two children increased. Also another 1 children number of total words(NTW) and number of different words(NDW) was all increased.
Second, the rate of semantic relation of three or above three words in expressive language was increased in all subjects, and occurrence of complex sentence was increased.
Third, the mean length of utterance in morphemes in all the children increased.
Fourth, the changing referential communicative competence showed in all the children higher rate.
In conclusion, the storyretelling program was effective in improving the linguistic competence of the language delayed children.