[Pragmatic abilities in the discourse of children with and without specific language impairment]
Débora Maria Befi-Lopes1, Amalia Rodrigues, Lidiane Cristina Rocha
1Fonoaudiológica, Livre-Docente em Fonoaudiologia pela Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo. dmblopes@usp.br
Background:
to investigate the pragmatic difficulties presented by children with specific language impairment and to verify how these deficits influence their discourse performance.
Aim:
to analyze the request-response sequences in the discourse of normal and Specific Language Impairment Children (SLI) during a 20-minute free-play situation with an adult.
Method:
subjects of this study were 29 children, male and female, with ages ranging from 2:0 to 4:11 years. Data was collected during a free-play situation with an adult.
Results:
SLI children frequently ignored the questions made by the adult and responded innappropriately more often.
Conclusion:
qualitative and quantitative differences in the pattern of responses and in the use of pragmatic abilities were found for the SLI children.
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