Narrative language skills are vital to a person’s ability to not only have successful social relationships but also impact academic work (e.g., written language). Narrative skills are the ability to use language to tell a story. These skills begin to develop at the young age of 2 years! As a child’s narrative language skills develop they will begin to follow rules of storytelling (e.g., sequencing events, including characters, having an event/dialogue/solution, and an ending). Narratives may be fiction or non-fiction.
What should your child be doing? Check out this chart of narrative development.
What should your child be doing? Check out this chart of narrative development.
Chart adapted from Hutson-Nechkash, Peg. (2001), Ripley, K., 2012
If you are concerned about your child’s narrative language, discuss it with your pediatrician or give us a call to see if we can help.
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