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Using conversational data in the treatment of pragmatic disorder in children

Department of Linguistic Science, University of Reading

Jennifer Reid

Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh

While pragmatic disorders in children have received increasing recogni tion in recent years, therapists still lack tools for the assessment of children displaying such disorders. This paper describes an approach to assessment which is based on the analysis of samples of conversational data. A number of categories of pragmatic 'error' are identified. The system is illustrated by a brief case study. Because of inevitable problems with inter-tester reliability, it is suggested that this approach is best used for identifying areas for remediation, and for reassessment in order to evaluate therapy.

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