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From EurekAlert! - Breaking News:

For the first time, a new study has looked into how language impairments affect a child's ability to understand and retell a script-based story. For this study, involving a University of Alberta researcher, the examiner read a script-based story (about two children who go to a restaurant with their mother) to 44 eight-year-old children with and without language impairments. The children with language impairments faired very poorly when trying to recall story details. Read more from this post.