Pragmatic language impairment in children with Noonan syndrome.

This study describes the pragmatic skills in NS and discusses the linguistic profile of 17 informants aged 6-15 years, by comparing the participants' scores on the Children's Communication Checklist, 2nd Edition (CCC-2) (Bishop, 2011), with a group of typically developing children of matching age and gender. Language impairments were common in the NS group. The results show that children and adolescents with NS do not have one coherent pragmatic profile. However, 76.5% of the participants displayed communication impairments, and pragmatic skills were significantly lower than in the control group. PMID: 27348294 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics - Category: Speech Therapy Authors: Tags: Clin Linguist Phon Source Type: research