Squirrel Story Narrative Comprehension Assessment (NCA)
The Squirrel Story 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 which investigated oral inferential comprehension in young children with developmental language disorder (Dawes, 2017).
The NCA provides separate literal and inferential scores, giving the clinician an understanding of the child’s ability to orally comprehend narratives at both a literal and inferential level. The NCA provides clinicians and teachers with an assessment tool which can support the development of intervention goals. It is:
Quick to administer and easy to administer alongside the Squirrel Story Narrative Retell assessment,
Easy to score,
And provides separate scores for literal and inferential comprehension.
The Squirrel Story NCA was used as a measure of narrative comprehension progress in a randomised controlled trial of an oral inferential comprehension book sharing intervention (Dawes, Leitão, Claessen, & Kane, 2019), alongside the Squirrel Story (Black Sheep Press BSP).
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Please cite as:
Dawes E, Leitão S, Claessen M, et al. (2018) The Squirrel Story Narrative Comprehension Assessment (NCA). Keighley: Black Sheep Press. Available at: https://www.blacksheeppress.co.uk/product/squirrel-story-narrative-comprehension-assessment-nca