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It provides a qualitative picture of the student’s typical communicative behaviours. This information can then be used for planning strategies that are grounded in everyday communicative needs, in partnership with those who are in closest contact with the student.
The Profile aims to provide a general perspective on the student’s communicative abilities and needs. Although it does not attempt to cover every area of communication development, the Profile does provide information on a broad range of aspects of the development of pragmatics – including the range and form of expression of communicative intentions, response to communications, manner of participating in conversation and the impact of situational context on the student's communication skills.
Why a qualitative approach
There is value in qualitative, descriptive information, alongside quantitative data such as that presented, for example, in the communication matrix. Language assessments which are based on measures of language form and structure and which provide norm-referenced scores offer little or no insight into how a person’s language difficulties affect their everyday use of language for communication.
The findings of the Profile are not, therefore, summarised numerically but in descriptive form and they are the basis of the students' communication passports. This descriptive overview is, then, supplemented and extended by other assessments.
... And here is the assessment:
The Pragmatics profile 2020.docxThe Pragmatics Profile word document
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