Analysis of Oral and Written Narratives of Children with Language Impaired Learning Disabilities

Abstract

This study investigated and compared oral and written narratives of children with Language Impaired Learning Disabilities (LILD) and typically growing children as control group using strict reliability measures. The influence of context defined in terms of three narrative elicitation tasks for this study were story retell, story generation and spontaneous narratives.. Three children with LILD subjects aged between 9-12 years were compared to three typically growing children of same age group. The narratives were analysed at a micro-structural level using measures of productivity and form complexity. A specific analysis of writing was also performed. The results of this study indicate that the individuals with LILD did not perform well compared to control group in most of the oral and written task. However, the differences were not found to be statistically significant for oral task. It was also found that oral narrative productions for individuals with LILD were better than their written task.