Conversational samples were obtained from 57 children aged from 8 to 12 years with
specific language impairment, and 67 control children aged from 4 to 12 years. Fourteen of …

Independent raters scanned transcribed conversations from 57 language‐impaired children
and 67 control children aged from 4 to 12 years and identified instances where the normal …

Along with recent developments in discourse and conversation analysis has come the
recognition that some children are impaired in their ability to engage in conversational …

The Children's Communication Checklist (CCC) was developed to assess aspects of
communicative impairment that are not adequately evaluated by contemporary standardised …

This study compared several discourse characteristics of linguistically normal and language-
disordered children. In order to examine interactive skills, several types of request-response …

Eighteen children with specific language impairment (SLI), from 6 to 8 years of age, were
compared with 9 control children matched on age and nonverbal ability (CA controls) and …

This study examined learning disabled children's understanding of conversational rules for
initiating the repair of a communicative breakdown. Learning disabled and normal children …

The frequency and type of communication breakdowns occurring in the speech of 7
language learning-disabled children (LLD), aged 9: 10–11: 1 (years: months), were …

Background: The preliminary phase of a project aimed at establishing appropriate outcome
measures for intervention with children who have pragmatic language impairments (PLI) is …

Conversational replies were examined in two groups of children with comparable
vocabularies and speech limited to single-word utterances: children with specific language …