Development of minimum communications circuits from seven basic speech acts
What is the contribution of ICRA-A battery?
The implementation of its instruments allows the language therapist to:
• Know the minimum level of pragmatic linguistic development at early age based on seven basic speech acts with their pre-linguistic, paralinguistic, linguistic and nonverbal and verbal coherence components in a communicative situation.
• Analyze, within the framework of a neurolinguistic assessment, the pragmatic impairments of children with different language compromises to distinguish, at early age, if the identified failures are due to delay, disorganization, pragmatic alteration, (Abraham & Brenca, 2013, 2016) or, on the contrary, if such failures are derived from a compromise of other language aspects and/or cognitive functions.
• Have validated instruments to assess the pragmatic aspect of language.
• Determine the degrees of severity of PRAGMATIC DIFFICULTY (slight, moderate and severe).
What is the contribution of ICRA-A battery?
• Provide a systematic, quantitative and qualitative analysis of the pragmatic variables that contribute to the early differential diagnosis in children with language compromises.
• Define the pragmatic goals of the treatment plan supported by the progression and systematization criteria.
• Have access to information related with the perception that each parent has on his/her child’s communicative competence and on such performance in daily routines.
• Intensify, through their application, the theoretical concepts of pragmatic linguistics, and strengthen even more the valuable concept of speech act and its three forces (illocutionary, locutionary and perlocutionary) in the speech and language clinical practice.
• Have specific resources that enable to optimize the work typical of its discipline and, from there, to contribute to the worthy interdisciplinary task.
