Recent advances in the study of children's difficulties with the use of
language have given rise to the development of various assessment
schemes concerned with pragmatic skills. Most approaches to date have
used observational methods, often guided by checklists of relevant
pragmatic skills. A desirable extension of these methods is the standar
dized test. This paper examines and evaluates a recently published
standardized test, Shulman's Test of Pragmatic Skills. It is suggested
that the test could form a useful part of an assessment battery, to be used
in conjunction with other methods for assessing pragmatic skills.
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