International audienceWriting narratives allows dysphasic children to mobilize their syntactic knowledge. Dysphasic children have specific, severe and lasting oral language development disorders in which cognitive abilities are preserved. This study aims to show that explicit, long and formal learning of writing at school allows dysphasic children to perform better in writing than in speaking. The syntactic abilities of 24 dysphasic children with French mother tongue and enrolled in mainstream schools were compared to those of 48 children with typical controls of the same chronological ages. The results show that dysphasic children produce fewer syntactic errors per clause when narrating a personal event. In addition, the difference between...