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Adams, C., & Bishop, D. (1989). Conversational characteristics of children with semantic-pragmatic disorder. I: Exchange structure, turn taking, repairs and cohesion. British Journal of Disorders of Communication, 24, 211-9.

Bates, E (1976), Language and Context: the Acquisition of Pragmatics, Academic Press

Bishop, D.V.M. (1998). Development of the Children’s Communication Checklist (CCC): A method for assessing qualitative aspects of communicative impairment in children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 39 (6), 879-893.

Bishop, D.V.M., & Adams, C. (1989). Conversational characteristics of children with semantic pragmatic disorder II: What features lead to a judgement of inappropriacy? British Journal of Disorders of Communication, 24, 241-263.

Bishop, D (1989), Autism, Asperger's syndrome and Semantic-Pragmatic Disorder: where are the boundaries?, British Journal of Disorders of Communication 24, p.107-121

Bishop, D.V.M. (2000). Pragmatic language impairment: A correlate of SLI, a distinct subgroup, orpart of the autistic continuum? In D.V.M. Bishop &L.B. Leonard (Eds.) , Speech and language impairments in children: Causes, characteristics, intervention and outcome (pp. 99­113). Hove, UK: PsychologyPress.

Bishop, D.V.M., & Baird, G. (2001). Parent and teacher report of pragmatic aspects of communication: Use of the Children's Communication Checklist in a clinical setting. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology,43, 809­818.

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