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Peer reviewedLapadat, Judith C. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1991
This meta-analysis of 33 studies compared the pragmatic language skills of 825 students (ages 3-12) having language and/or learning disabilities with the skills of nondisabled peers. The students with disabilities demonstrated consistent and pervasive pragmatic deficits in conversation, which were more attributable to underlying language deficits…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Language Handicaps, Language Patterns
