Standardized story prompts. Scored automatically.
Three original story-elicitation stimuli, spanning preschool to adolescent, all released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Scene-by-scene presentation flows directly into the recorder, and the narrative scorer rates the response on NSS, ESS, and PSS rubrics — automatically.
Why a built-in stimuli library matters
Standardization, licensing, and automatic scoring — three things that don't come together anywhere else.
Standardized elicitation
Same prompt, same scenes, same instructions across every clinician, every session, every site. Compare a child to themselves over time, or to your normative sample, without worrying that the prompt drifted.
Original — and CC-BY 4.0 licensed
Every story is original, written in-house, and released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Not derived from SALT's protected materials, and free to use in clinical work, research, or teaching with attribution.
Walks the child through the story scene by scene
The presentation component shows scenes in order, captures the child's narrative response, and flows straight into the in-browser recorder. No separate stimuli book, no second device.
Scored automatically by the narrative analyzer
Each stimulus is tagged with the story-grammar elements it should elicit. When the recording comes back, NSS, ESS, and PSS rubrics run on the transcript and tell you which elements the child produced.
Three stories, three age groups
All original. All CC-BY 4.0. All scored by the same narrative engine.
The Lost Puppy
Four scenes. A small puppy chases a butterfly into a garden, gets lost in the rain, and is rescued by a girl with a yellow umbrella. Targets the basic story-grammar elements: setting, character, initiating event, problem, resolution, ending.
Marcus and the Red Kite
Five scenes plus a full read-aloud text. Marcus saves up for a kite, loses it in a tree, and his sister helps him build a new one. Tests longer episodic recall with goal–attempt–outcome structure.
Should Schools Require Two Hours of Outdoor Time?
Persuasive prompt designed to elicit complex syntax and discourse markers. Tests adolescent narrative and expository language at an age where most LSA tools have nothing to offer.
CC-BY 4.0, end of story
Every stimulus in the library is released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. You can use them clinically, in research, in teaching, and in publications — as long as you cite ConductSpeech. They are not derived from SALT's narrative materials and there is no separate licence to chase down.
Stimuli questions, answered
Why do these exist when SALT already has narrative protocols?
SALT's narrative materials are licensed and not redistributable. To run a clean narrative sample with their stimuli you have to own the SALT product and its assets. Our stimuli are original, CC-BY 4.0, and bundled with the analyzer that scores them — no separate licence to manage.
Are the stories culturally appropriate?
We tried to write prompts that don't depend on any one regional context. The puppy story uses universal scenes (porch, garden, rain). The kite story uses a universal childhood object. The adolescent prompt is about school recess, which translates well across most school systems. We are open to feedback and will keep adding stimuli.
How does the automatic narrative scoring work?
Each stimulus has expected story-grammar elements (setting, characters, initiating event, problem, resolution, ending, etc.). When the child's transcript comes back, the narrative scorer checks which elements appeared and assigns NSS / ESS / PSS rubric scores accordingly.
Can I add my own stimuli?
Right now the library is curated by us so we can guarantee the rubric tagging. If you have a stimulus you would like to contribute, we would love to talk — get in touch and we will scope adding a 'custom stimuli' workflow.
Do these work for Spanish narrative samples?
The current three stimuli are English. The narrative scoring engine itself is language-agnostic, so once we add Spanish-language stimuli the same NSS / ESS / PSS scoring will run against them. Drop us a line if Spanish narrative stimuli would change your purchase decision.
Try the library on your next narrative sample
Pick a story by age group, present it scene by scene, record the response, and get NSS / ESS / PSS scores back automatically.
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