Aim. The aim of the present study was to investigate pragmatic skills in a sample of aphasic
patients, and to provide an overview of their communicative abilities and impair‑ments. We
used the Assessment Battery for Communication (ABaCo). Methods. ABaCo consists of five
evaluation scales and is able to assess, both in compre‑hension and in production, the
different ex‑pressive modalities of communication‑lin‑guistic, extralinguistic, paralinguistic–
as well as social appropriateness and conversa‑tional abilities. The battery was …