 Pragmatic language development and educational style in neglected childrenJuan Manuel Moreno Manso, Ma Elena García-Baamonde, Macarena Blázquez Alonso and Eloísa Guerrero Barona Children and Youth Services Review, 2010, vol. 32, issue 7, 1028-1034 Abstract: This paper analyzes the pragmatic competence of children in residential care and the relation between the parents' educational style and the level of pragmatic dominion of 74 children aged between 6 and 18 in 4 residential child care centers in Extremadura. We apply the 'Objective Language Criteria Test' (BLOC-Screening) to evaluate their linguistic development and the 'Autoevaluative Multifactorial Child Adaptation Test' (TAMAI) to determine educational style. The presence of difficulties in pragmatics is evident. The children with a low dominion of pragmatics perceive a more restrictive and punitive style in the mother and a high affective rejection in the father. The children have difficulties empathizing with others, especially when they are interacting with adults; they have very little skill in showing disagreement before an authority figure; and they use their previous experience to make inferences about the actions or intentions of other people. We verify the need to implant programs designed to stimulate and reorganize the children's language. Keywords: Child; abuse; Language; development; Pragmatics; Neglect; Psycholinguistic; skills (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:32:y:2010:i:7:p:1028-1034 Access Statistics for this article Children and Youth Services Review is currently edited by Duncan Lindsey More articles in Children and Youth Services Review from Elsevier |
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