Paralinguistic abilities of adults with intellectual disability

Đorđević, Mirjana; Glumbić, Nenad; Brojčin, Branislav

doi:10.1016/j.ridd.2015.11.001

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“…The “ability” variable had the biggest contribution to this discriminant function, which was expected since ID is defined by the below-average level of intellectual functioning ( 37 ), while receptive speech is also sometimes taken as a measure of intellectual functioning e.g., ( 38 , 39 ). Furthermore, our results indicate that the level of paralinguistic abilities distinguishes between the mentioned groups, which is in line with the results of other studies in which participants with schizophrenia ( 19 , 38 , 40 ), and participants with ID ( 41 – 43 ), had worse results than TD participants in this domain of pragmatics. Searching for predictors of worse achievements in identifying and producing emotions in adults with ID, Calić et al ( 44 ) found that receptive language skills were a significant predictor of paralinguistic comprehension of emotions.…”

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“…Participants with ID are better at irony comprehension tasks than participants with DD ( 23 ). It has also been shown that the presence of DD and the level of ID independently affect participants’ paralinguistic abilities ( 24 ). People with DD have more significant procedural discourse impairments than participants with ID, manifested in their inability to consider their communication partner’s needs while a game or task is being described ( 25 ).…”

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Differences in pragmatic communication skills of adults with intellectual disabilities and dual diagnoses

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Glumbić²,

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et al. 2023

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IntroductionPragmatics includes a set of skills related to language structure and meaning that allow the speaker to use the language appropriately and in accordance with different communication situations. The aim of this research was to determine the differences in pragmatic communication skills of adults with intellectual disabilities, dual diagnoses, and typical development, and to determine the effects of gender, age, the level of intellectual functioning and speech comprehension on their achievements on two assessment instruments.MethodsThe sample included 180 adults (60 typically developing participants, 60 with intellectual disabilities, and 60 participants with dual diagnoses). We used two instruments to assess pragmatic communication skills – Communication Checklist – Adult, CC-A, and the Assessment Battery for Communication, ABaCo. In order to test the differences between the three groups of participants, we used canonical discriminant analysis.ResultsDiscriminant analysis revealed two significant canonical functions. Function one (speech comprehension and the level of intellectual disability, social engagement, and paralinguistic scale) differentiates between typically developing participants and participants with dual diagnoses the most. The second canonical function (language structure, linguistic scale, paralinguistic scale, extralinguistic scale, and context scale) differentiates between participants with intellectual disabilities and participants with dual diagnoses the most. According to the results, age did not affect pragmatic achievements.DiscussionPragmatic skills are very complex, and different instruments measure different dimensions of these abilities. The results of this research lead to the conclusion that we can differentiate between the pragmatic abilities of typically developing people, people with intellectual disabilities, and those with dual diagnoses with the help of the ABaCo battery and the CC-A questionnaire.

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Differences in pragmatic communication skills of adults with intellectual disabilities and dual diagnoses

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Brojčin³

et al. 2023

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“…The main purpose of this study was to provide a wide assessment of communicative-pragmatic ability in three age groups: two of older adults (65-75 and 76-86 years old) and one of younger adults (20-40 years old), by mean of a between-study design and using a single validated assessment tool, the Assessment Battery for Communication (ABaCo) [46][47][48][49]. ABaCo has been validated for the Italian population [48] (Angeleri et al 2012) and it has been partially adapted in English [50], Serbian [51] Finnish [52], and Portuguese [53]. The ABaCo is made up of five different evaluation scales-linguistic, extralinguistic, paralinguistic, context, and conversationalinvestigating participants' communicative-pragmatic ability.…”

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A cross-sectional study to assess pragmatic strengths and weaknesses in healthy ageing

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Background Ageing refers to the natural and physiological changes that individuals experience over the years. This process also involves modifications in terms of communicative-pragmatics, namely the ability to convey meanings in social contexts and to interact with other people using various expressive means, such as linguistic, extralinguistic and paralinguistic aspects of communication. Very few studies have provided a complete assessment of communicative-pragmatic performance in healthy ageing. Methods The aim of this study was to comprehensively assess communicative-pragmatic ability in three samples of 20 (N = 60) healthy adults, each belonging to a different age range (20–40, 65–75, 76–86 years old) and to compare their performance in order to observe any potential changes in their ability to communicate. We also explored the potential role of education and sex on the communicative-pragmatic abilities observed. The three age groups were evaluated with a between-study design by means of the Assessment Battery for Communication (ABaCo), a validated assessment tool characterised by five scales: linguistic, extralinguistic, paralinguistic, contextual and conversational. Results The results indicated that the pragmatic ability assessed by the ABaCo is poorer in older participants when compared to the younger ones (main effect of age group: F(2,56) = 9.097; p < .001). Specifically, significant differences were detected in tasks on the extralinguistic, paralinguistic and contextual scales. Whereas the data highlighted a significant role of education (F(1,56) = 4.713; p = .034), no sex-related differences were detected. Conclusions Our results suggest that the ageing process may also affect communicative-pragmatic ability and a comprehensive assessment of the components of such ability may help to better identify difficulties often experienced by older individuals in their daily life activities.

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“…ABaCo provides a complete evaluation of communicative-pragmatic abilities in children with typical (Bosco et al, 2013;Bosco & Gabbatore, 2017) and atypical development (Angeleri et al, 2016), as well as in adult clinical populations Parola et al, 2016). Some of the scales composing ABaCo were adapted for English (Davis et al, 2015), Finnish (Gabbatore et al, 2019), Serbian (Dordević et al, 2016) and Portuguese cultural contexts (Agrela et al, 2021). Specifically, we investigated different expressive means, i.e., linguistic, extralinguistic (e.g., gestural and facial expression), paralinguistic (e.g., prosodic), as well as sensitivity to social context and conversational skills.…”

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Development of communicative-pragmatic abilities in children with early cochlear implants

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Cochlear Implants (CIs) enhance linguistic skills in deaf or hard of hearing children (D/HH). However, the benefits of CIs have not been sufficiently studied, especially with regard to communicative-pragmatics, i.e., the ability to communicate appropriately in a specific context using different expressive means, such as language and extralinguistic or paralinguistic cues. The study aimed to assess the development of communicative-pragmatic ability, through the Assessment Battery for Communication (ABaCo), in school-aged children with CIs, to compare their performance to a group of children with typical auditory development (TA), and to investigate if CI received under the age of 24 months promotes the typical development of such ability. Results show that children with CIs performed significantly worse than TA on the paralinguistic and contextual scales of the ABaCo. Finally, the age of first implantation had a significant role in the development of communicative-pragmatic ability.

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Paralinguistic abilities of adults with intellectual disability

Cited by 10 publications

References 47 publications

Differences in pragmatic communication skills of adults with intellectual disabilities and dual diagnoses

Differences in pragmatic communication skills of adults with intellectual disabilities and dual diagnoses

A cross-sectional study to assess pragmatic strengths and weaknesses in healthy ageing

Development of communicative-pragmatic abilities in children with early cochlear implants

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