Background: The remediation of pragmatic problems forms a significant part of the caseload
for professionals working with children with communication problems. There is little …

Background: Children who show disproportionate difficulty with the pragmatic as compared
with the structural aspects of language are described as having pragmatic language …

Background: The preliminary phase of a project aimed at establishing appropriate outcome
measures for intervention with children who have pragmatic language impairments (PLI) is …

In this article, Catherine Adams, clinical senior lecturer in speech and language therapy at
the University of Manchester, and Julian Lloyd, senior lecturer in psychology at Newman …

The current position on speech and language intervention for children who have pragmatic
language impairment (PLI) is limited by a lack of evidence to support practice. Two …

Background Treatment trials that enquire into parents' and teachers' views on speech–
language interventions and outcomes for primary school‐age children are relatively rare …

Many children who have communication delays or impairments show difficulty in the domain
of pragmatics—the understanding of how language is used in social contexts. When …

Background It is widely acknowledged that children with developmental language disorder
(DLD) predominantly have difficulties in the areas of grammar and vocabulary, with …

The nature of the communication disorder in children with pragmatic language impairment
(PLI) has three main components: pragmatic deficits, structural language deficits and social …

There is a need for evidence based interventions for children with autism spectrum disorder
(ASD) to limit the life-long, psychosocial impact of pragmatic language impairments. This …