[Relation between phonologic and pragmatic habilities in specific language impairment].
BACKGROUND: Specific language impairment. AIM: To establish relations between the performance of subjects in phonologic and pragmatic tests. METHOD: Tabulation and analyses of the data of phonologic and pragmatic tests of 20 children with ages raging from 3:0 to 5:11 years, with the diagnoses of Specific Language Impairment (SLI). RESULTS: The statistic analyses showed good correlations between developmental processes (DP) and non-developmental processes (NDP), DP and the use of verbal mean, vocal mean and number of communication acts per minute. CONCLUSION: The performance in the phonological and pragmatic tests does not seem to have a direct correlation in subjects with specific language impairment.
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