Background: The assessment of pragmatics expressed in spoken language is a central
issue in the evaluation of children with communication impairments and related disorders. A …

It has long been claimed that Homo sapiens is the only species that has language, but only
recently has it been recognized that humans also have an unusual pattern of growth and …

The Children's Communication Checklist (CCC) was developed to assess aspects of
communicative impairment that are not adequately evaluated by contemporary standardised …

Narrative ability is one of the most interesting and ecologically valid ways in which to
measure communicative competence both in normal populations and in clinical groups …

This paper reports on the effect of using an interactive and child-initiated microcomputer
program (Alpha) when teaching three groups of children (N= 30) reading and …

This paper reports on the results of a large project involving 7-year-old children attending
language units in England. A group of 242 children with specific language impairment (SLI) …

The Handbook of Child Language Disorders provides an in-depth, comprehensive, and
state-of-the-art review of current research concerning the nature, assessment, and …

The recent literature on language intervention has become increasingly focused upon
develo** treatments that more closely parallel normal language acquisition. However …

There are between 4,000 and 6,000 languages remaining in the world and the
characteristics of these languages vary widely. How could an infant born today master any …

Purpose Impaired pragmatic language (ie, language use for social interaction) is a hallmark
feature of both autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and fragile X syndrome (FXS), the most …