Brief report: Pragmatic language in autism spectrum disorder: Relationships to measures of ability and disability

J Volden, J Coolican, N Garon, J White… - Journal of autism and …, 2009 - Springer
… that structural language skills significantly predicted pragmatic language performance, but
pragmatic scores could not be accounted for by structural language or nonverbal cognition. …

Pragmatic language skills of students with language and/or learning disabilities: A quantitative synthesis

JC Lapadat - Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1991 - journals.sagepub.com
disabilities are related to their pragmatic language abilities. Pragmatics is the ability to use
language ap… Pragmatic ability depends on social knowledge and skill as well as linguistic …

Pragmatic language skills in people with intellectual disabilities: A review

C Hatton - Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 1998 - Taylor & Francis
pragmatic language skills by people with intellectual disabilities. The development of pragmatic
language … wide range of ages and abilities, and attempt to improve a variety of pragmatic

Pragmatic language and the child with emotional/behavioural difficulties (EBD): a pilot study exploring the interaction between behaviour and communication disability

L Mackie, J Law - International journal of language & …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
… , pragmatic language skills and literacy ability in the high co-existence rate of emotional/behavioural
difficulties and language/… In particular our ability to assess pragmatic language skills …

Pragmatic disability in children with specific language impairments

H van Balkom, L Verhoeven - … of developmental language …, 2003 - taylorfrancis.com
… in which we study pragmatic ability and disability. The focus is … pragmatic disability, studies
of SLI children’s ability to match … lead to the identification of pragmatic disability in cases of SLI …

Pragmatic communication abilities in children and adults: Implications for rehabilitation professionals

LS Turkstra, A Clark, S Burgess, JA Hengst… - Disability and …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
… Purpose: The purpose of this study is to provide a review of pragmatic communication ability
and its disorders, as a resource for rehabilitation team members. This review is a product of …

Pragmatic ability and disability as emergent phenomena

MR Perkins - Clinical linguistics & phonetics, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
… they interact to produce what we perceive as pragmatic ability and disability. One way of
doing so is to understand how pragmatics may be represented as an ‘‘emergent’’ phenomenon. …

The scope of pragmatic disability: A cognitive approach

MR Perkins - Pragmatics and clinical applications, 2000 - books.google.com
… So far, however, there have been very few attempts to look at pragmatic ability and
disability from a cognitive perspective. Some have assumed rather simplistically that …

[PDF][PDF] Pragmatic skills in children with different types of learning disability: a comparative study

S Kumari, R Pyata, BK Afreen… - Language in …, 2016 - languageinindia.com
Pragmatic ability depends on social knowledge and skill as well as linguistic knowledge …
focused on pragmatic language competence in different types of learning disabled children ie …

Children with cerebral palsy, spina bifida and pragmatic language impairment: Differences and similarities in pragmatic ability

P Holck, U Nettelbladt, AD Sandberg - … in developmental disabilities, 2009 - Elsevier
… linguistic and cognitive abilities associated with pragmatic ability between these … pragmatic
ability by focusing on pragmatically related abilities, language abilities and cognitive abilities