Gabbatore Ilaria, Marchetti Guerrini Agata, Bosco Francesca Marina
Department of Humanities, GIPSI Research Group, University of Turin, Via Sant'Ottavio 20, 10124, Turin, Italy.
Department of Psychology, GIPSI Research Group, University of Turin, 10124, Turin, Italy.
Sci Rep. 2025 Jan 2;15(1):348. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-83280-z.
Social Pragmatic Communication Disorder (SPCD) is characterised by a number of pragmatic difficulties and may lead to obstacles in school readiness. These difficulties also apply to children with Special Needs. Several authors pointed out the difficulty to detect SPCD, also considering the lack of sensitive assessment tools. The aim of this study is to investigate the pragmatic ability of children with BES not otherwise specified (BES-NOS), compared to a control group of children with Typical Development (TD) using the Assessment Battery for Communication (ABaCo). Our expectation is that BES-NOS perform worse than children with TD. Furthermore, for exploratory purposes, we investigate whether it is possible to identify a subgroup of children with undiagnosed SPCD within the BES-NOS group, by performing a cluster analysis. Our results show that children with BES have a significantly lower pragmatic performance than the TD group and suggest the sensitivity of ABaCo in identifying individuals with undiagnosed SPCD among children and adolescents with BES-NOS.
社会语用交流障碍（SPCD）的特征在于一系列语用困难，可能会导致入学准备方面的障碍。这些困难也适用于有特殊需求的儿童。几位作者指出，检测SPCD存在困难，同时也考虑到缺乏敏感的评估工具。本研究的目的是使用交流评估量表（ABaCo），调查未另作说明的广泛性发育障碍（BES-NOS）儿童与典型发育（TD）儿童对照组相比的语用能力。我们预计BES-NOS儿童的表现会比TD儿童差。此外，出于探索目的，我们通过进行聚类分析，研究是否有可能在BES-NOS组中识别出未确诊的SPCD儿童亚组。我们的结果表明，BES儿童的语用表现明显低于TD组，并表明ABaCo在识别BES-NOS儿童和青少年中未确诊的SPCD个体方面具有敏感性。
