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Semantic Pragmatic Disorder

Semantic Pragmatic Disorder by Margo Sharp

Working with children with Semantic Pragmatic Disorder

Conversational Characteristics of children with SPD

Autism, Aspergers, SPD Where are the boundaries?

Conversational Characteristics of children with SPD 2

Hemispheric Function in Developmental Language Disorders and High Level Autism

Social Cognition in Developmental Language Disorders and High Level Autism

Semantic Pragmatic Disorder :A Right Hemisphere Syndrome?

Questioning the Validity of the Semantic Pragmatic Syndrome Diagnosis

Semantic Pragmatic Impairments Information Sheet

What is Semantic Pragmatic Disorder? by Julia Muggleton

Perspective Taking Across the School and Adult Years for Persons with Social Cognitive Deficits

Contextual Competence, it's growth, use and loss

Social Communication & Language Characteristics Associated with High Functioning, Verbal Children and Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Semantic and Pragmatic Disorders

Autism and Pragmatics of Language

School Age Groups for children with Semantic Pragmatic Difficulties

Communication Advice for Carers of Children with Classical Autism and Atypical Autism

ADHD and Pragmatic Language Disorders by Susan D Dixon (WORD)

Pragmatic Communication Skills by Susan D Dixon (WORD)

Semantic Pragmatic Disorder

Speech and Language Therapy Advice and Guidance:Semantic Pragmatic Difficulties

Pragmatic Language Disorder:Advice to Carers

A Guide to the Development of Early Communication Skills

They Have Some Features, But Are These Children and Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum? What Do We Do?

Update on the language disorders of individuals on the autistic spectrum-Isabelle Rapin

Focus on Semantic Pragmatic Disorder

Follow-up of children with language delay and features of autism from preschool years to middle childhood

Pragmatic Language Impairment PowerPoint Brief by Dorothy Bishop

Understanding the Language and Communicative Impairments in Autism

Exploring the borderlands of autistic disorder and specific language impairment

Clinical diagnostic and intervention studies of children with semantic pragmatic langage disorder

Pragmatic Language Impairment: a correlate of SLI, a distinct subgroup or part of the autistic spectrum?

Pragmatic language impairment without autism

The Epidemiology of Autistic Spectrum Disorders;Is the Prevalence Rising? Lorna Wing and David Potter

Pragmatic Language Development

Conversational responsiveness in Specific Language Impairment:Evidence of disproportionate pragmatic difficulties in a subset of children.

Early Identification of Young Children At Risk for Communication and Language Disorders

Variation in pragmatic performance in children with language disorders: establishing baselines for an intervention study

A Psychological Approach to Understanding the Social and Language Impairments in Autism

The Role of Language and Communication Impairments Within Autism

Pragmatic language impairment in children

Contextual competence: Its growth, use and loss

Correlation Between Family Size and Pragmatic Skills of Preschool Children

Pragmatics and speech acts

Pragmatic Language Difficulty

Teaching Pragmatics

Helping your son or daughter to manage at high school-written for Aspergers but very useful resource for SPD parents too

Language in Context: History, Developmental Milestones, and Implications for Intervention

Pragmatics: The Road to Social Competency

Living with Impairment: The Effects on Children of having an Autistic Sibling

Children on the Autistic Spectrum:Guidelines for Mainstream Practice

Autism: a difficulty with communication

The evaluation of pragmatic difficulties. A case study

A study of idiom comprehension in children with semantic-pragmatic difficulties. Part 1:Task effects on the assessment of idiom comprehension in children.

A study of idiom comprehension in children with semantic-pragmatic difficulties. Part II: Between-groups results and discussion

Practitioner Review: The assessment of language pragmatics

Semantic pragmatic disorder with application of selected pragmatic concepts.

Inferential processing and story recall in children with communication problems: a comparison of specific language impairment, pragmatic language impairment and high-functioning autism.

Development of the Children's Communication Checklist (CCC): a method for assessing qualitative aspects of communicative impairment in children.

The prevalence of autistic spectrum disorders in adolescents with a history of specific language impairment (SLI).

Narrative skills of children with communication impairments.

Context and comprehension: a neurolinguistic and interactional approach to the understanding of semantic-pragmatic disorder.

Semantic and inferencing abilities in children with communication disorders

Intervention in children with pragmatic language and communication disorders

Pragmatic comprehension in secondary school-aged students with specific developmental language disorder.

Why pragmatic impairment? A case study in the comprehension of inferential meaning

Appropriacy judgements and pragmatic performance.

Weak coherence, no theory of mind, or executive dysfunction? Solving the puzzle of pragmatic language disorders.

Social communication in children with autism: The relationship between theory of mind and discourse development

A play-based methodology for assessing idiom comprehension in children with semantic-pragmatic difficulties.

Concordance between teacher/therapist opinion and formal language assessment scores in children with language impairment.

Autism, primary pragmatic difficulties, and specific language impairment: can we distinguish them using psycholinguistic markers?

Follow-up of children attending infant language units: outcomes at 11 years of age.

Semantic and inferencing abilities in children with communication disorders.

Children's Communication Checklist (CCC) scores in 11-year-old children with communication impairments.

Are Children with Autism Deaf to Gricean Maxims?

Pragmatic Impairment