Psychometrics of the Pragmatic Rating Scale for School-Age Children With a Range of Linguistic and Social Communication Skills.

ABSTRACT: Purpose Social communication or pragmatic skills are continuously distributed in the general population. Impairment in these skills is associated with two clinical disorders, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and social (pragmatic) communication disorder. Such impairment can impact a child's peer acceptance, school performance, and current and later mental health. Valid, reliable, examiner-rated observational measures of social communication from a semistructured language sample are needed to detect social communication impairment. We evaluated the psychometrics of an examiner-rated measure of social (pragmatic) communication, the Pragmatic Rating Scale-School Age (PRS-SA). Method The analytic sample consisted of 130 children, ages 7-12 years, from five mutually exclusive groups: ASD (n

SUBMITTER: Dillon E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8642082 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature