BACKGROUND Two studies were conducted to test claims that pragmatic language impairment (PLI - previously referred to as semantic-pragmatic disorder) is simply another term for autistic disorder or pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDDNOS). METHOD In Study 1, 21 children aged from 6 to 9 years with language impairments were subdivided on the basis of the Children's Com...

In this study, the authors examined the language of 43 participants with chronic schizophrenia under the basic assumption that a paradigmatic shift is needed in the methodology used to investigate the language of schizophrenia. The pragmatic protocol (C. Prutting and D. Kirchner, 1987) was chosen as the method of analysis to attain a general profile of pragmatic abilities. The results showed th...

Research on the relationship between aspects of language development and Theory of Mind (ToM) in children with language impairments suggests that children with language impairment show a delay in ToM development. This study aimed to examine the relationships of the syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic skills with ToM in school-age children. Twenty children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI) ...

Owing to the growing interest in communicative, cultural and pragmatic aspects of second language learning in recent years, the present study tried to investigate representations of pragmatic aspects of English as a foreign language in Iranian high school textbooks. Using Halliday’s (1978), and Searle’s (1976) models, different language functions and speech acts were specifically determined and...

This study investigates the portrayal of autistic character in Atypical film seasons one and two through verbal non-verbal pragmatic language impairment analysis. The qualitative method theory mind by Attwood Stemmer Whitaker were employed research. found that made 320 impairments, including languages. For impairment, literal interpretations violation maxims frequently found, where repetitions ...

pragmatics is defined as appropriate use of language either to comprehend ideas or to interact in social situations effectively. pragmatic competence, which is processed in the right hemisphere, comprises a number of interrelated skills that manifest in a range of adaptive behaviors. due to the widespread influence of language in communication, studying pragmatic profiles, by developing appropr...

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 communication difficulties using newly designed tasks. METHODS & PROCEDURES Children with different types of communication disorder were compared with each other and with three groups of typically ...

BACKGROUND The few studies that have tracked children with developmental language disorder to adulthood have found that these individuals experience considerable difficulties with psychosocial adjustment (for example, academic, vocational and social aptitude). Evidence that some children also develop autistic symptomatology over time has raised suggestions that developmental language disorder m...