The Peter and the Cat Narrative Comprehension Assessment (NCA) was developed as an assessment of discourse-level oral narrative comprehension in young children. It was developed as part of doctoral research at Curtin University in Western Australia, which investigated oral inferential comprehension in young children with developmental language disorder (Dawes, 2017).

The doctoral thesis for which this assessment was developed is freely available from here.

The NCA provides separate literal and inferential scores, giving the clinician/teacher an understanding of the child’s ability to orally comprehend narratives at both a literal and inferential level. The Peter and the Cat NCA was used as a measure of narrative comprehension generalisation in the randomised controlled trial of an oral inferential comprehension book sharing intervention (Dawes, Leitão, Claessen, & Kane, 2019).

This assessment is free for use in conjunction with the Peter and the Cat Narrative Assessment for iPad or hard copy.