Pragmatics consists of the use of language for a variety of communicative purposes, including requesting, advocating, telling stories, refusing, and making comments. Due to the intersectional nature ...

So many kids (and adults!) struggle with pragmatic language skills due to having autism or another learning disability. Not ...

Children with trauma histories have difficulty in all language domains, but particularly in social pragmatic communication, which consists of interdependent relationships among social cognition, ...

As we navigate through our day, communication is essential, whether we are collaborating with work colleagues, gathering with friends, or interacting with family. As we communicate, we follow hundreds ...

I was recently reading The Happiness Hypothesis by psychologist Jonathan Haidt (2006). Haidt writes: “In all human cultures, the social world has two clear dimensions: a horizontal dimension of ...

Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, Vol. 15, No. 4 (FALL 2010), pp. 422-437 (16 pages) This study characterized the profile of pragmatic abilities among 24 children with hearing loss (HL) aged ...