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Assessing Pragmatic Use of Language

Mary Anne Nericcio, Ph.D

September 12, 2005

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I am searching for a useful checklist or assessment tool in determining a student's pragmatic use of language. I realize that this may not be a "qualifying" tool for services but we need to describe skills in this area every so often for kids who are "ma

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There is an Assessment of Pragmatic Skills that you can find in Assessment in Speech-Language Pathology: A Resource Manual published by Singular Publishing Group. I use this with my graduate students and they have found it to be very practical with all populations.

Dr. Mary Anne Nericcio has been a bilingual speech language pathologist for 30 years. She is an Associate Professor at Texas A & M International University in Laredo, Texas. She can be reached at mnericcio@tamiu.edu


Mary Anne Nericcio, Ph.D


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