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Pragmatic Rating Scale

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Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders

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PRS-SA (Pragmatic rating scale-school age)

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The Pragmatic Rating Scale-School Age (PRS-SA) is a assessment tool designed for documenting social communicative behaviors that violate pragmatic rules. It is designed for use with individuals aged 4 years through adulthood whose cognitive and linguistic functioning ranges from mild impairment through the gifted level. The definition of “pragmatics” used here is the set of rules governing the social use of language.

Pragmatics

Communication is a vital component of human interaction. It is one of the primary means of keeping people connected to each other. Communication may happen for a wide variety of purposes, such as informing someone (e.g., that you will be late), requesting permission, making a promise, teasing, showing something of interest, asking for information, greeting, negotiating, and so forth. To ensure that communication between people is coherent and socially appropriate, every culture has unwritten (tacit)...

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  1. Director Center for Autism and Related Disorders, Kennedy Krieger Institute, 3901 Greenspring Ave. Professional Building, 2nd Floor, Baltimore, MD, 21211, USA

    Dr. Rebecca Landa Ph.D., CCC-SLP (Professor Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine)

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  1. Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Psychology Yale University School of Medicine, Chief, Child Psychiatry Children's Hospital at Yale-New Haven Child Study Center, New Haven, CT, USA

    Fred R. Volkmar (Director, Child Study Center) (Director, Child Study Center)

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Landa, R. (2013). Pragmatic Rating Scale. In: Volkmar, F.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1698-3_361

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