Personal Narrative Therapy Curriculum for SLPs

Do you have children on your caseload who struggle to answer the question, “What did you do today?” Many children who receive speech-language therapy struggle to formulate coherent personal narratives to describe real events that have happened to them. This is a guide for SLPs to address personal narratives in language therapy.

This packet is an introduction to targeting personal narrative development in speech-language therapy. Included are:

• Definition of key terms used in research literature
• Rationale for this goal area
• Descriptions of narrative language development
• Assessment procedures
• Therapy strategies
• Sample goals
• 44+ thematic therapy activities
• Evidence-based sources cited