Purpose Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and children with developmental
language disorder (DLD) face challenges with pragmatics, but the nature and sources of …

Pragmatic language impairments are common in neurodevelopmental disorders, especially
in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The relationship between structural language skills and …

This chapter reviews the studies that look at social and pragmatic impairments in children
with Specific language impairment (SLI), considering how frequent these are, and how far …

Background: The pragmatic skills of children with communication disorders and their
assessment are currently an issue for speech and language therapy and educational …

Background Developmental disorders of language and communication present
considerable diagnostic challenges due to overlapping of symptomatology and uncertain …

There is now an extensive empirical literature on the nature and extent of pragmatic
disorders in a range of clinical populations. This chapter attempts to organize the findings of …

Purpose To compare the Children's Communication Checklist—2 (CCC–2), a parent report
instrument, with the Test of Pragmatic Language (TOPL), a test administered to the child, on …

Eighteen children with specific language impairment (SLI), from 6 to 8 years of age, were
compared with 9 control children matched on age and nonverbal ability (CA controls) and …

Three groups of children with communication disorders were examined using a series of
psycholinguistic markers to explore whether the tasks could identify children with …

Background: Pragmatic language impairment in children with specific language impairment
has proved difficult to assess, and the nature of their abilities to comprehend pragmatic …