Development of minimum communications circuits from seven basic speech acts

Who can be assessed with ICRA-A battery?

Children with nonverbal and/or verbal language delay or impairment, between 2 and 4 years old, especially those showing pragmatic failures (delay, alteration or disorganization).

Elder children with an intellectual or communicative performance comprised in such age range.

The pragmatic aspect is another aspect of language such as the phonological, the lexical-semantic, the morphological or the syntactic. It requires, like all aspects, to be analyzed systematically within the framework of neurolinguistic speech and language assessment and not be reduced to the observation level.

It can be affected in patients of all ages, with language compromises of various types and degrees. The causes of these difficulties can also be varied and, of course, having pragmatic failures is not a condition enough to include a patient within a certain diagnosis. (For example, Autism Spectrum Disorders). It seems quite obvious but clinical evidence in our country shows the opposite.