This chapter considers definitional issues, arguing that a broad view of social
communication, which subsumes pragmatics, provides the most viable clinical approach to …

Roger Brown considered how children come to attach a word to things and categories of
things in the world. Attaching words or names to things and categories is basic to human …

Background: The few studies that have tracked children with developmental language
disorder to adulthood have found that these individuals experience considerable difficulties …

Background Children who have social communication disorder (CwSCD) demonstrate
persistent difficulties with language pragmatics in conversations and other verbal …

Pragmatic skills enable children to produce and comprehend words and sentences in ways
that are appropriate to the conversational context. While structural language is known to vary …

Pragmatic language ability refers to the ability to use language in a social context. It has
been found to be correlated with success in general education for deaf and hard of hearing …

Purpose Pragmatic language skills are often impaired above and beyond general language
delays in individuals with neurodevelopmental disabilities. This study used a multimethod …

Pragmatic language (PL) is defined as the ability to use language effectively in
communicative exchanges. Previous findings showed that deficits in PL are a core …

Background: Semantic and inferencing abilities have not been fully examined in children
with communication difficulties. Aims: To investigate the inferential and semantic abilities of …

Children with deficits in executive functions (EFs) and impairments in pragmatic language
have a range of cognitive and language difficulties that affect their literacy and educational …