Evaluation of pragmatic aspects of children with phonological disorders

Purpose to investigate the pragmatic abilities in children with phonological disorder. Method 12 children (three girls and nine boys) with phonological disorders aged from 3:7 to 7:8 were chosen by triage. Pragmatic analysis was executed using the instrument ABFW – pragmatic through speech and hearing screening. Furthermore, we calculated the level of severity of the phonological evolutionary disorder using a quantitative – Percentage of Consonants Correct – Revised (Shiriberg & Kwiatkowski, 1982) and a qualitative approach (Keske-Soares, 2001). Results there are no statistically significant correlation between the level of severity of the phonological disorder and pragmatic performance. However, we observed that subjects with phonological disorder showed a number of communicative acts per minute lower than the default values of the test when ranged by age group. Conclusion based on the results, it is not possible to state a direct relationship between level of severity of the phonological disorder and pragmatic performance even if these subjects have a lower performance than the default values of the test.