Facing a communicative obstacle: pragmatics of language-impaired children.
The ability of school-age, language-impaired children to respond when faced with a communicative obstacle was investigated. 18 language-impaired children were compared to 2 control groups, age-mates and language-mates. Language-impaired differed from both controls. They communicated more effectively than younger language-mates and less effectively than age-mates.
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D013065:Speech Intelligibility