1 Faculty of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec, Canada.
2 Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation and Social Integration (CIRRIS), Quebec, Canada.
Child Maltreat. 2019 Aug;24(3):244-253. doi: 10.1177/1077559519828838. Epub 2019 Feb 19.
The goals of this study were twofold: (1) to compare the pragmatic language skills (i.e., social communication skills) of 42-month-old neglected children with those of same-aged non-neglected children and (2) to measure the prevalence of pragmatic difficulties among the neglected children. The study sample was composed of 45 neglected and 95 non-neglected 42-month-old French-speaking children. The was completed with all parents. This measure, comprised of 159 scored items divided into 10 subscales, was used to assess the children's pragmatic skills. The 10th percentile on the (95% confidence interval ) was used to identify children with pragmatic difficulties. The neglected children had lower scores than the non-neglected children on all 10 dimensions of pragmatics evaluated ( < .01), as well as lower Total Scores ( < .001). The effect sizes of these differences varied between 0.84 and 2.78. Forty-four percent of the neglected children presented significant pragmatic difficulties compared to 4.2% of their non-neglected peers ( < .001). It can be concluded that exposure to neglect significantly compromises children's pragmatic skills. These results support the need for interventions geared toward neglected children and their families to support the early development of their pragmatic skills.
（1）比较 42 个月大的被忽视儿童与同龄非被忽视儿童的实用语言技能（即社会沟通技能）；（2）测量被忽视儿童中存在的语用困难的普遍性。研究样本由 45 名被忽视和 95 名非被忽视的 42 个月大的法语儿童组成。所有家长都完成了 。这一措施包括 159 个评分项目，分为 10 个子量表，用于评估儿童的语用技能。（95%置信区间）的第 10 个百分位数用于识别语用困难的儿童。与非被忽视儿童相比，所有 10 个语用维度（ <.01）以及总得分（ <.001）得分较低。这些差异的效应大小在 0.84 到 2.78 之间不等。44%的被忽视儿童与 4.2%的非被忽视同伴相比，存在显著的语用困难（ <.001）。可以得出结论，遭受忽视会严重影响儿童的语用技能。这些结果支持需要针对被忽视儿童及其家庭的干预措施，以支持他们语用技能的早期发展。
