Purpose
to investigate the pragmatic abilities in children with phonological disorder.
Method
12 children (three girls and nine boys) with phonological disorders aged from 3:7 to 7:8 were chosen by triage. Pragmatic analysis was executed using the instrument ABFW – pragmatic through speech and hearing screening. Furthermore, we calculated the level of severity of the phonological evolutionary disorder using a quantitative – Percentage of Consonants Correct – Revised (Shiriberg & Kwiatkowski, 1982) and a qualitative approach (Keske-Soares, 2001).
Results
there are no statistically significant correlation between the level of severity of the phonological disorder and pragmatic performance. However, we observed that subjects with phonological disorder showed a number of communicative acts per minute lower than the default values of the test when ranged by age group.
Conclusion
based on the results, it is not possible to state a direct relationship between level of severity of the phonological disorder and pragmatic performance even if these subjects have a lower performance than the default values of the test.
Speech Disorders; Language Development; Language; Language Tests