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This course describes the importance of narrative proficiency, in other words a child’s ability to tell real or make-believe stories. There are many factors that contribute to the development of narrative proficiency that can be targeted during the Early Intervention period, including vocabulary acquisition (increasing vocabulary by learning new words), participating in conversations through listening and talking, and understanding of stories. This course discusses why identifying language impairment and building the foundation for narrative proficiency will ultimately be important for the development of social skills/peer interactions, cognition and academic success. One of the strategies that this presentation highlighted, “contextualized teaching,” provided an example using a popular children’s book (“The Very Hungry Caterpillar”). Participants learned that by identifying words, asking questions, summarizing the story, making predictions, identifying elements of the story along with reading the story can improve narrative proficiency.
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