A study to measure the efficacy of a manualised oral narrative intervention programme for school-age children with narrative delay

For school-age children with narrative delay is a manualised oral narrative intervention programme more effective than typical practice as measured by narrative macrostructure, microstructure and quality

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12613001109796

Enrollment

Registered

2013-10-03

Start date

2014-03-15

Completion date

2014-05-01

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

This project will investigate the efficacy of a manualised theoretically driven oral narrative programme. Intervention will involve explicitly teaching macrostructure to 12 Pre-Primary children with narrative difficulties in small groups in a mainstream school. Multiple baseline repeated measures single-case design will be used to evaluate changes. Measures will include narrative macrostructure, microstructure and quality. The relationship between vocabulary and memory and response to intervention will also be investigated. This study has practical and theoretical significance as it will add to evidence for narrative intervention focusing on macrostructure and investigate the influence on vocabulary and sentence development.

Interventions

Phase Two: Evaluating the efficacy of the narrative intervention The second phase of this study, which follows on from the pilot study ACTRN12613001108707) will involve administering the narrative intervention programme to determine efficacy of the programme. Treatment sessions will occur at a selected school within the North East Metropolitan Education Region. Treatment will occur with 12 participants in small groups of three-four, three times a week for a period of six weeks. Participants will be monolingual English speaking, and aged between 5.5 and 6.5. The primary researcher will conduct the treatment sessions and all treatment sessions will be video and audio recorded with consent for later data analysis. Intervention sessions will consist of a range of activities such as book sharing, story generation, picture sequencing, story re-tells and character maps. These activities are commonly used in Speech Pathology sessions with young children. Each intervention session will last for 45 minutes.

Study design

Allocation

Non-randomised trial

Primary purpose

Treatment

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

5 Years to 6 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

Twelve monolingual English-speaking children between the ages of 5.5 to 6.5 with narrative delay will be selected from a metropolitan mainstream school. The school will be implementing typical classroom practice that does not include explicit teaching of narrative. A parent/teacher questionnaire will be used to ensure all participants are typically developing with no evidence of significant hearing, vision, behavioural, language and educational or medical issues present.

Exclusion criteria

Evidence of significant hearing, vision, behavioural, language and educational or medical issues.

Outcome results