The symptoms of this disorder include:

- deficits in social interaction, social understanding, pragmatics, and language processing
- deficits using appropriate greetings
- changing language and communication style based on setting or partner
- deficits in telling and understanding stories
- deficits in engaging in conversation (e.g., initiating or entering a conversation, topic maintenance, turn-taking, responsivity, providing the right amount of information)
- deficits in repairing communication breakdowns (e.g., rephrasing when misunderstood)
- deficits using appropriate verbal (e.g., prosodic features) and nonverbal (e.g., gestures) signals to regulate interactions
- deficits in interpreting the verbal and nonverbal signals of others during an interaction
- deficits in understanding ambiguous or figurative language
- deficits in making inferences (understanding information that is not explicitly stated)
- deficits in forming and maintaining close relationships

Symptoms of Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder

Current interventions for this disorder include:

- Augmentative and alternative communication (supplement/compensate for speech language production/comprehension including spoken and written modes of communication)
- Computer-based instruction (use computer technology to teach language skills)
- Video-based instruction (observational mode of teaching that uses video recording to model a target behavior/skill)
- Comic strip conversations (conversations between two or more people illustrated by drawings in a comic strip to clows the conversation down, and provide more time to an individual to understand the information)
- SCORE skills strategy (small group focuses on sharing ideas, complimenting each other, offering help, recommending changes nicely, and exercising self-control)
- Social communication intervention
- Social scripts (teaching children how to use varied language during social interactions and scripted prompts are gradually eliminated as children use them more spontaneously)
- Social Stories (using stories to explain social situations and help learn socially appropriate behaviors/responses)

Treatments of Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder

A type of communication disorder that is characterized by continuous difficulty with using verbal and nonverbal language for social intentions.

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The DSM-5-TR separates Communication Disorders into the following specific disorders:
- Language Disorder
- Speech Sound Disorder
- Childhood-Onset Fluency Disorder (Stuttering)
- Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder
- Unspecified Communication Disorder


[DSM-5-TR] List of Communication Disorders

American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. (n.d.). Social Communication disorder. American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Retrieved January 2, 2023, from https://www.asha.org/practice-portal/clinical-topics/social-communication-disorder/#collapse_6 

Social Communication Disorder

A type of communication disorder defined by difficulties in the acquisition and use of language due to deficits in the comprehension or production of vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, and discourse.

Language Disorder

A type of communication disorder that is characterized by significant disruptions of the normal fluency and motor production of speech. 

Child-hood-Onset Fluency Disorder (Stuttering)

Social (Pragmatic) Communication Disorder

"Speech sound disorders" (SSD) is an umbrella term which refers to any communication disorder defined by persistent difficulty with speech sound production that interferes with speech intelligibility or prevents verbal communication of messages. 

The condition is marked by developmentally inappropriate errors in speech production, due to impairments in articulation and phonological processing which arise from a variety of limitations related to perception, speech motor, and/or linguistic processes. 

SSD can be subdivided into two primary groups: 1) articulation disorders (also known as phonetic disorders) and 2) phonological disorders. 

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