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The Strong Narrative Assessment Procedure (SNAP; Strong, 1998) is a criterion-referenced measure designed to assess narrative discourse skills through story retell. The manual indicates that it may be used to evaluate children from 6 to 13 years of age; however, comparison data are only available for children 7 through 10 years of age.
Included in the SNAP are four audiotaped narratives that correspond to the four wordless picture books Frog, Where are You? (Mayer, 1969), Frog Goes to Dinner (Mayer, 1974), A Boy, a Dog and a Frog (Mayer, 1967), and One Frog Too Many (Mayer & Mayer, 1975). The book Frog Goes to Dinner (Mayer, 1974) is administered first as a practice story that is not scored, and then the examiner may administer any one of the remaining stories to elicit a sample narrative. During administration, the child is instructed to listen to one of the audiotaped narratives while looking at the corresponding wordless picture book. The manual recommends...
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Green, E. (2013). Strong Narrative Assessment Procedure (SNAP). In: Volkmar, F.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1698-3_805
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