The Role of Story Mode in the Narrative Skills of Children in Arabic Diglossia: Comparing Children With Typical Language Development and Developmental Language Disorder

The results support earlier reports of differences between children with TLD and those with DLD in narrative skills across story modes. Moreover, the results demonstrate the role of the story retelling mode in enhancing macrostructure generation and lexical diversity in both groups of children, even though narration in our case was conducted in StA, a variety less familiar to children. The implications of these findings for assessment and intervention are discussed.