Table 1.

Structure of the Cognitive Pragmatic Treatment: topics, material, and procedures belonging to each session.

Session  (s)	Topic	Material and procedure
n. 1	Awareness of one's own difficulties	Construction of the clinical setting and introduction of aims and tools of the CPT. Video-recording of the self-presentation of each patient (own communicative difficulties and expectations).
n. 2	General communicative ability: an overview	Videos and role playing tasks focused on the overall pragmatic effectiveness expressed through all the modalities constituting the communicative competence.
n. 3 n. 4	Linguistic ability	Videos and role playing tasks based on the linguistic expressive modality.
n. 5 n. 6	Extralinguistic ability	Videos and role playing tasks based on the gestural expressive modality.
n. 7 n. 8 n. 9	Paralinguistic ability	Videos, role playing tasks, and interactive activities specifically focused on facial expression recognition, rhythm, and tone of the voice.
n. 10 n. 11	Social appropriateness ability	Videos and role playing tasks focused on social appropriateness and communicative adequacy in different contexts.
n. 12 n. 13	Conversational ability	Videos, role playing tasks, and tangram exercises focused on the use of conversational rules (i.e., turn-taking and management of the topic).
n. 14	Management of conversation at the phone	Audio-taped telephone conversation and role playing tasks specifically focused on telephone conversational rules (i.e., with no possibility of taking advantage of the paralinguistic and gestural elements which usually connote communicative interactions).
n. 15	Planning ability	Individual and group activities focused on subgoals tasks (e.g., planning household chores).
n. 16 n. 17	Theory of mind	Videos and role playing tasks focused on the ability to formulate metarepresentations with respect to one's own and others' mental states.
n. 18	Narrative ability	Description tasks and speech elicitation tasks focused on the ability to tell a story or describe a situation in a proper and clear way.
n. 19	General communicative ability: a summing-up	Videos and role playing tasks focused on the overall pragmatic effectiveness expressed through all the modalities constituting communicative competence.
n. 20	Posttraining awareness	Conclusions and feedback about the results gained by every participant when compared to the initial video-recorded performance.