Narrative Assessment Profile: discourse analysis for school-age children.

The assessment of narrative skills of school-age children is described using a comprehensive discourse analysis approach, the Narrative Assessment Profile. The following dimensions of narration are evaluated: topic maintenance, event sequencing, explicitness, referencing, conjunctive cohesion, and fluency. The purpose of this article is to describe the development of these six dimensions and their symptoms in impaired narrative discourse. Assessment and intervention guidelines are presented.