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  • Title: [Pragmatic abilities in the discourse of children with and without specific language impairment].
    Author: Befi-Lopes DM, Rodrigues A, Rocha LC.
    Journal: Pro Fono; 2004; 16(1):57-66. PubMed ID: 15109108.
    Abstract:
    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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