Results

Macrostructure

SLI children with fragile linguistic structure

SLI children more likely to produce stories of uneven strength— either stories with poor content or stories with elaborated content

SLI had lower scores than the

TD children on several narrative measures as well as on sustained auditory attention and verbal working memory

Children with SLI and literacy delay had persevering oral language problems across all assessed

language domains.

The children with SLI and normal literacy skills had low scores in vocabulary, morphology and story retelling skills

Microstructure

Pragmatic aspects of storytelling (referencing, event content, mental state expressions and inferencing) were demanding too

grammatically quite accurate stories but other times less

grammatical

SLI children showed more linguistically complex sentences in the story retelling task than in the story generation task

Children with SLI

showed significantly lower MLU, TNW and NDW, and significantly higher %UGS

On listening comprehension and storytelling, they managed to make progress towards the level of the control group

On the morphosyntactic accuracy measures, the group with SLI performed

more poorly than bothcontrol groups