Pragmatic Impairment

The Handbook of Language and Speech Disorders

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 227-246

  Perkins, Michael R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Approaches to pragmatic impairment; Compensatory adaptation and pragmatic impairment; Executive dysfunction (ED), alternative to ToM as primary cognitive deficit in autism; Language disorders; Limitation in syntactic or morphological knowledge and processing capacity reducing morphosyntactic choices; Pragmatic impairment; Pragmatic impairment, commonly linked to underlying problems with cognition; Pragmatic impairment, individuals who experience difficulties with language use; Sensorimotor deficits; Theory of mind (ToM) known as "mindreading" and "mentalizing"

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EID: 84885641369     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444318975.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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