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Three groups of language-normal (LN) 6, 8 and 16/17 year olds, and a group of language-impaired (LI) children were given a task answering questions about pictures that involved inferential meaning. A developmental progression in the types of responses given is seen, with the LI children performing like the youngest LN children. A similar progression is seen in the ability to justify the answers given to inferential questions with the young adult group giving the fewest justifications that were problematical in some way. Larger numbers of problematical justifications in the LI group can be related to some extent to non-pragmatic aspects of their impairment, but overall this group also gave more pragmatically irrelevant responses when asked to justify answers given. It was not possible to identify any major differences between subgroups of children within the LI group, identified as pragmatically impaired (PI) and non pragmatically impaired (NPI), in terms of either answers given to inferential questions or in terms of problematical justifications for these answers. Possible reasons for these findings are discussed.
Author(s): Letts CA, Leinonen E
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders
Year: 2001
Volume: 36
Issue: 3
Pages: 307-328
ISSN (print): 1368-2822
ISSN (electronic): 1460-6984
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13682820110045829
DOI: 10.1080/13682820110045829
PubMed id: 11491482
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