Validation of PleaseApp: a digital tool for the assessment of receptive pragmatic abilities in children with neurodevelopmental disorders
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Otros documentos de la autoría: Andrés-Roqueta, Clara; Flores Buils, Raquel; Igualada, Alfonso
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Validation of PleaseApp: a digital tool for the assessment of receptive pragmatic abilities in children with neurodevelopmental disordersFecha de publicación
2024Editor
Frontiers MediaISSN
1664-0640Cita bibliográfica
Andrés-Roqueta C, Flores-Buils R and Igualada A (2024) Validation of PleaseApp: a digital tool for the assessment of receptive pragmatic abilities in children with neurodevelopmental disorders. Front. Psychiatry 15:1329022. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1329022Tipo de documento
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Background: Pragmatic skills allow children to use language for social
purposes, that is, to communicate and interact with people. Most children
with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) face pragmatic difficulties ... [+]
Background: Pragmatic skills allow children to use language for social
purposes, that is, to communicate and interact with people. Most children
with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) face pragmatic difficulties during
development. Nevertheless, pragmatic skills are often only partially assessed
because the existing instruments usually focus on specific aspects of pragmatics
and are not always adapted to children with communication difficulties. In this
sense, digital tools (e.g., apps) are an optimal method to compensate for some
difficulties. Moreover, there is a lack of pragmatic tools measuring the receptive
domain. Therefore, the present study aims to validate PleaseApp as a digital
instrument that measures eight pragmatic skills by presenting the design of the
assessment tool and its psychometric properties.
Methods: PleaseApp was designed based on previous empirical studies of
developmental pragmatics in children with and without NDD. PleaseApp assesses
eight receptive pragmatic skills: figurative language, narrative, reference, indirect
speech acts, visual and verbal humor, gesture-speech integration, politeness,
and complex intentionality. The study involved 150 typically developing children
between 5 and 12 years of age.
Results: A confirmatory factor analysis proposes an eight-factor model with
no underlying factor structure. The eight tests that compose PleaseApp have
obtained a model with a good fit and with adequate reliability and validity indices.
Discussion: PleaseApp is an objective, valid, and reliable tool for assessing
pragmatic skills in children with NDD. In this sense, it helps to assess whether a
child has acquired pragmatic skills correctly according to his/her age and clarify
the specific problems a child has in eight different components to plan personal
and personalized interventions. [-]
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Frontiers in Psychiatry 15:1329022Entidad financiadora
Ministry of Science and Innovation (Spain)
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PID2020-115167GA-I00
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