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[Understanding questions: a specific difficulty in children with pragmatic communication and language disorders]
Revista De Neurologia
|March 5, 2010
Summary
Understanding questions is key for children with severe communication impairments. Intervention strategies should integrate cognitive, social, and linguistic approaches tailored to individual needs and question types.
Area of Science:
- Linguistics
- Developmental Psychology
- Speech-Language Pathology
Context:
- The question-answer schema is fundamental for communicative interaction.
- Children with severe communication and language impairments often struggle with understanding questions.
- Effective communication relies on interpreting various question types.
Purpose:
- To analyze the essential skills required for understanding questions.
- To explore the implications of these skills for intervention strategies.
- To provide a framework for addressing challenges in question comprehension.
Summary:
- Question answering involves recognizing intonation, facial cues, intentions, and linguistic content.
- Questions can be understood through contextual-social, lexical, or structural cues.
- Complex questions like 'what' and 'who' demand advanced comprehension skills.
Impact:
- Intervention should be multifaceted, incorporating cognitive, social, and linguistic elements.
- Strategies must be individualized based on the child's specific difficulties and the question's nature.
- A tailored approach enhances communicative interaction for children with language impairments.
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