Narrative, Literacy and Other Skills

This chapter describes a short conversational intervention (SCI) procedure aiming to promote narrative skills in young children. The SCI solicits children’s thinking and talk about the causes of the events in a story of a misunderstanding between two characters, The Stone story . We first report results obtained in several previous studies of typically-developing (TD) children in the 4- to 10-year age range, showing the positive immediate, as well as delayed, effect of the procedure from 6 years