[Relation between phonologic and pragmatic habilities in specific language impairment]
Debora Maria Befi-Lopes1, Karina de Araujo, Elisabete Giusti
1Departamento de Fisioterapia, Fonoaudiologia e Terapia Ocupacional da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP). dmblopes@usp.br
Background:
Specific language impairment.
Aim:
To establish relations between the performance of subjects in phonologic and pragmatic tests.
Method:
Tabulation and analyses of the data of phonologic and pragmatic tests of 20 children with ages raging from 3:0 to 5:11 years, with the diagnoses of Specific Language Impairment (SLI).
Results:
The statistic analyses showed good correlations between developmental processes (DP) and non-developmental processes (NDP), DP and the use of verbal mean, vocal mean and number of communication acts per minute.
Conclusion:
The performance in the phonological and pragmatic tests does not seem to have a direct correlation in subjects with specific language impairment.
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