In our team, we have a day each fortnight where we get together for CPD and to give some space for supervision.
Amongst other things, we are currently working on our DLD pathway and gathering together the evidence to support our work with children who have DLD.
During a recent session, we discussed a recent research paper on narrative skills for pupils with DLD.[1] As a result of the discussion, we decided to pull together a one-page summary to help us with translating this research into our practice.
Following on from our blog last week on narrative skills, we’ve had a couple of people ask for more details on the one-pager we pulled together, so we have shared this below – hope you find it useful.
We’ve also created a simple narrative board structure we’re sharing with our schools, and we are pulling together a summary of how narratives develop.
Do let us know if you would like a copy of either/both and we will send it your way.
In the meantime, we hope you all have a wonderful break over Christmas. Remember to share lots of stories and narratives…
“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” Philip Pullman
“Listen, and you will realise that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories.” Mia Couto
[1] Leitão, S., Claessen, M., Visentin, D., & Calder, S. D. (2025). Narrative production in English speaking children aged 5–7 years with typical language development and developmental language disorder: Development of a reference data set. International Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/17549507.2025.2536816