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In this article, we present the profiles of two children with KS (47, XXY), aged 9.1 (Child S) and 13 (Child D), whose language development was assessed as adequate at age 3, and for this reason, did not receive any language treatment. At the present stage, their IQ, as measured by Wechsler Scales (Child S: 92; Child D: 101), is within the norm, but they both present marked weaknesses in pragmatic skills such as figurative language comprehension. The analysis of these two cases points to the need to go beyond global indexes of verbal abilities, as the same global index may mask a wide diversification of individual profiles. In addition, this study underlines the importance of monitoring the developmental trajectories of children like Child D and Child S, because weaknesses in pragmatic skills that are relevant for both academic achievement and social adaptation could emerge at later stages.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/brainsci8090171","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,7]],"date-time":"2018-09-07T11:47:41Z","timestamp":1536320861000},"page":"171","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Beyond the Literal Meaning of Words in Children with Klinefelter Syndrome: Two Case Studies"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"8","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0768-9192","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sergio","family":"Melogno","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychology of Development and Socialization Processes, \u201cSapienza\u201d University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Maria Antonietta","family":"Pinto","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychology of Development and Socialization Processes, \u201cSapienza\u201d University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Margherita","family":"Orsolini","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Psychology of Development and Socialization Processes, \u201cSapienza\u201d University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Luigi","family":"Tarani","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Pediatric Department, \u201cSapienza\u201d University of Rome, 00185 Rome, Italy"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,9,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"615","DOI":"10.1210\/jcem-2-11-615","article-title":"Syndrome characterized by gynecomastia, aspermatogenesis without a-leydigism, and increased excretion of follicle-stimulating hormone1","volume":"2","author":"Klinefelter","year":"1942","journal-title":"J. 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