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Looking for social pragmatic communication disorder in the complex world of Italian special needs: an exploratory study.
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- Pragmatic language disorders as predictors of psychopathological trajectories in childhood and adolescence: a systematic review.Frontiers in child and adolescent psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Assessment Battery for Communication (ABaCo): An Extension of Normative Data to Elderly Individuals.Journal of psycholinguistic research · 2026Article
- Expressive pragmatic language in mood and psychotic disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Schizophrenia (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2026Review
- Does cultural context matter? Comparison of Finnish and Italian children's social-pragmatic comprehension.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Assessing communicative-pragmatic ability in telehealth: e-ABaCo in autistic individuals.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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Social Pragmatic Communication Disorder (SPCD) is characterised by a number of pragmatic difficulties and may lead to obstacles in school readiness. These difficulties also apply to children with Special Needs. Several authors pointed out the difficulty to detect SPCD, also considering the lack of sensitive assessment tools. The aim of this study is to investigate the pragmatic ability of children with BES not otherwise specified (BES-NOS), compared to a control group of children with Typical Development (TD) using the Assessment Battery for Communication (ABaCo). Our expectation is that BES-NOS perform worse than children with TD. Furthermore, for exploratory purposes, we investigate whether it is possible to identify a subgroup of children with undiagnosed SPCD within the BES-NOS group, by performing a cluster analysis. Our results show that children with BES have a significantly lower pragmatic performance than the TD group and suggest the sensitivity of ABaCo in identifying individuals with undiagnosed SPCD among children and adolescents with BES-NOS.
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