[Relation between phonologic and pragmatic habilities in specific language impairment].
BACKGROUND
Specific language impairment.


OBJECTIVE
To establish relations between the performance of subjects in phonologic and pragmatic tests.


METHODS
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.


CONCLUSIONS
The performance in the phonological and pragmatic tests does not seem to have a direct correlation in subjects with specific language impairment.
Befi-Lopes
Debora Maria
DM
Departamento de Fisioterapia, Fonoaudiologia e Terapia Ocupacional da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo (FMUSP). dmblopes@usp.br
de Araujo
Karina
K
Giusti
Elisabete
E
D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D007805:Language Development Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014825:Vocabulary