Análisis de las dificultades en el discurso narrativo en alumnado con Trastorno Específico del Lenguaje

The aim of our study was to compare the production and comprehension of narratives in two groups of Spanish-speaking children, one with typical development and another with Specific Language Impairment (SLI). The sample consisted of 35 children diagnosed with SLI and 21 children without language problems. For narrative evaluation, a protocol was designed on the basis of a qualitative review and adaptation of some proposals, which included Gillam and Pearson's (2004) Test of Narrative Language (TNL). The results indicated worse performance in the group of children with SLI in narrating a story without assistance, in narrative macrostructure, syntactic complexity, and overall understanding of the story.