The chapter describes the possibilities of involving a speech-language therapist in the assessment of the pragmatic level of communication in autism spectrum disorders (ASD), where one of the most frequently impaired areas is communication pragmatics. These difficulties lead to a disruption of social interaction, which might be one of the obstacles to speech-language intervention in these children. The text is based on an originally developed testing material aimed at selected pragmatic-oriented communication situations relating to everyday activities and real life. Based on a comparison of domestic and international resources in this area, as well as mediated and own empirical experience, our assessment approach is based on the conclusion that pragmatics can be understood in different contexts and perspectives. The text presents the results of a partial survey comparing the performance of children with ASD and children with typical development. The assessment focused on the children's election of the correct picture of a pair of pictures that represent usual communication and social situations. The results of the research suggest fewer incorrect responses in children with ASD and in different areas compared with children with typical development. However, the results of a qualitative analysis indicate a necessity to expand the assessment of communication pragmatics by adding an individually specific qualitative analysis of children's performance.

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The article describes the main findings of the research focused on the possibility of evaluating the pragmatic level of communication in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) from the point of view of speech-language therapist based on a comparison with groups of children with specific language impairment, a mild intellectual disability and typical children. We refer to the originally developed evaluation tool that can be used not only in speech-language therapy practice, and we compare the resulting findings with previously published pre-research. The findings show that some perceptual deficits at the level of the pragmatic language level, especially the recognition of the proxemics, as well as the surprising differences between performances of children with autism spectrum disorders compared to others, are confirmed. Given the variability and the identified pitfalls of evaluating socio-pragmatic language information, we recommend caution in evaluating and interpreting the pragmatic language level assessment not only in children with PAS.

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