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Yale in Vivo Pragmatic Protocol

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YiPP

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The Yale in vivo Pragmatic Protocol is an assessment tool that measures pragmatic language through a semi-structured conversational task in verbal children aged 9–17. It contains a series of predetermined probes to collect information on a variety of conversational speech acts. Within this 30–40-min conversation, the examiner inserts 23 pragmatic probes within five conversational domains (discourse management, communicative function, conversational repair, presupposition, register variation). If the child produces a pragmatic language behavior in response to the probe, the conversation continues and the next probe is administered. If the child does not respond to the probe, the examiner systematically provides a series of prompts to determine whether or not these prompts are helpful in the production of the pragmatic behavior.

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The YiPP was developed by Dr. Rhea Paul and piloted at the Yale Child Study Center.

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  • Paul, R. (2005). Assessing communication in autism spectrum disorders. In D. Cohen & F. Volkmar (Eds.), Handbook of autism and pervasive developmental disorders (3rd ed., pp. 799–816). New York: Wiley.

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  • Schoen, E., & Paul, R. (2009). Assessing pragmatic language in high-functioning autism. Poster presented at the symposium on research in child language disorders, Madison.

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  • Simmons, E. S., Paul, R., & Volkmar, F. (2014). Assessing pragmatic language in autism spectrum disorder: The Yale in vivo pragmatic protocol. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 57, 2162–2173.

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  1. Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, 406 Babbidge Road, Unit 1020, 06269, Storrs, CT, USA

    Elizabeth Schoen Simmons

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  1. Yale Child Study Center, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

    Fred R. Volkmar

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Simmons, E.S. (2017). Yale in Vivo Pragmatic Protocol. In: Volkmar, F. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6435-8_994-3

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