Pragmatic impairment

MR Perkins - The handbook of language and speech disorders, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Pragmatic impairment1 is a term used in connection with individuals who experience
difficulties with language use. Rather than referring to a straightforward, unitary disorder, this …

Pragmatics and SLI: Within-group variations in discourse behaviors

HK Craig, JL Evans - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 1993 - ASHA
Selected discourse behaviors of children with specific language impairment (SU) presenting
expressive (E: SLI) or combined expressive-receptive deficits (ER: SLI) were compared to …

[图书][B] Research in clinical pragmatics

L Cummings - 2017 - Springer
Clinical pragmatics is still a relative newcomer to the study of language and communication
disorders and is a recent offshoot of linguistic pragmatics. Yet, this field has already …

The impact of nonverbal ability on prevalence and clinical presentation of language disorder: Evidence from a population study

CF Norbury, D Gooch, C Wray, G Baird… - Journal of child …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Background Diagnosis of 'specific'language impairment traditionally required nonverbal IQ
to be within normal limits, often resulting in restricted access to clinical services for children …

Metapragmatic explicitation ability in children with typical language development: development and validation of a novel clinical assessment

A Collins, E Lockton, C Adams - Journal of Communication Disorders, 2014 - Elsevier
Purpose Speech-language practitioners recognise the importance of metapragmatic (MP)
ability (the ability to explicitly reflect on pragmatic rules) in therapy for children with …

Psycholinguistic profiling differentiates specific language impairment from typical development and from attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

SM Redmond, HL Thompson, S Goldstein - 2011 - ASHA
Purpose Practitioners must have confidence in the capacity of their language measures to
discriminate developmental language disorders from typical development and from other …

The use of two language tests to identify pragmatic language problems in children with autism spectrum disorders

EC Young, JJ Diehl, D Morris, SL Hyman, L Bennetto - 2005 - ASHA
Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are developmental in nature and are characterized by
difficulties with language and social communicative interaction, as well as restricted and …