Step 8: Analyze the Story ReTell
The analysis of a Retell is identical to the analysis of a the tell. You will judge the story based on:
- Narrative complexity
- Grammatical growth
- Sentence length
- Overall organization
- Pragmatic appropriateness.
This will give us the information we need to better support eligibility decisions because patterns become immediately visible:
- Large improvement → experience or language exposure
- Minimal change → strong indicator of impairment
If you are not familiar with the Mercer Mayer story Frog Goes to Dinner, download this script to see what the child would have been expected to include after having heard this model: Frog Goes to Dinner Script