3/5, 3/12, 3/14, 3/18- Language Impairments 2 Flashcards
What percentage of late talkers have persistent language problems?
- 40-50% (Might be later diagnosed as SLI)
Is it difficult to predict future language problems based on early delays/late talking?
Yes it is, regardless of the severity of the delay
For people who do catch up after being a late talker, are they often easy to distinguish from others?
No, they are often hard to distinguish, even at age 4
What is a cause for late talking?
May likely be environmental in origin
—poverty, homelessness, etc.
What can help late talkers improve their language skills?
- SLP services
- Suggestions for home can help.
What does SLI stand for?
Specific Language Impairment
What is SLI usually about?
Syntax and Morphology
Is an LLD or SLI more involved?
LLD
What does LLD stand for?
Language Learning Disability
What are some features of a LLD?
- Language is getting in the way of the child being able to learn in school
- child might be in a special Day classroom
- child might be receiving special services
- Dyslexia
SLI has significant limitations in what?
language functioning not attributed to:
- hearing
- oral function, or
- intelligence
What percentage of children may be “late” (Language Delayed) with language development by 2 years?
10-15%
Do children outgrow SLIs?
Yes, they seem to.
(Of the percentage of children who may be “late” with language development by 2 years) What percentage of SLI children have language problems persisting into school?
20-50%
True or False…SLI and LLD can be life long problems?
True
Is SLI a primary or secondary disability?
Primary
Is LLD a primary or secondary disability?
Secondary
What percentage of Kindergarteners are in the SLI category?
And how many will continue to have difficulty with language as adolescents?
About 7.4%
2/3 of these kindergarteners will still have difficulty with language as adolescents
True or False….SLI children do not have the perceptual difficulties of kids with LD and they won’t be dx with a language learning disability.
True- They do not demonstrate the perceptual difficulties of LD (learning disabled) or the intellectual difficulties of ID (Intellectually Disabled). Their cognition is good. They don’t have the cognition issues that LD kids have
When the verbal IQ score is low and the non verbal score is normal does the child have an IQ problem or a language problem?
Language Problem
**Like LLD, language performance scores are lower than intellectual performance scores on nonverbal tasks: Nonverbal IQ usually above 85 and a low verbal IQ.
Why is it difficult to dx SLI?
it usually is characterized by the exclusion of other disorders
How is SLI defined?
Some suggest that it is not a distinct disorder, but is merely a category of children with limited language difficulties resulting from genetic and/or environmental factors combined.
What impairment may appear delayed in one aspect of language (usually “Form”-syntax/morphology)?
SLI
True or False- If dx with SLI, a child will catch up without intervention
False
True or False- With SLI, expressive abilities are usually below receptive
True
What are some characteristics of behavior at school with SLI kids?
- Perceived more negatively by teachers and peers
- Behavior problems emerge
- Take minor roles in cooperative learning because they contribute little
- Later in school self-esteem becomes affected
- Self perception decreases with regard to school and social abilities
What are some language characteristics for SLI?
- May be primarily receptive or expressive or a combination
- Different aspects of language affected—although language form (syntax/morphology) stands out
- These characteristics change as child matures, and it could be a lifelong problem
- Early language skills that affect later reading and writing are affected
- You need to have good syntax and morphology understanding to comprehend what you are reading
- Oral errors appear in writing
- writing will be missing correct verbiage, struggling to come up with a cohesive sentence, lots of erasing
- these kids have trouble learning the rules of language, using learned language in different contexts, and using word associations to increase vocabulary (double edged sword) (vocab and morphology help each other along)
- morphology and phonology rules are not learned and applied correctly and vocabulary does not develop
- Pragmatics problems develop because of difficulties with language use.
What percentage of SLI kids also have a reading disability?
50%-75%
Is SLI a reading disability?
No
What does SLI look like in regards to semantics?
- slow vocabulary growth and lexical errors
- Less able to recognize physical features (color, size, and shape), thematic elements within a topic (throw, hit, catch go with game), and/or causation (who caused something, who or what received something)
- New words are not learned and stored quickly
- Naming difficulties secondary to less elaborate storage of words
- This builds on itself—vocabulary growth builds on comparison to previous learning and repeated exposure to terms
What does SLI look like in regards to Syntax/Morphology?
- Fewer morphemes used correctly, affecting verb endings, auxiliary verbs, and articles and prepositions.
- Morphemes themselves receive little stress in speech.
What is a hallmark marker for SLI?
Morphology errors.
What are examples of grammatical morphological errors with SLI?
- Past tense, the verb “to be.”
- Late appearance of past tense –ed is a hallmark.
- Pronoun errors are common because they tend to overuse one form (“he” or “she”)
What does SLI look like in regards to phonology?
-Vocalize less, have less mature syllable structures
- can do some of the basic things, can produce all of the sounds but phonological system is weak if we tax it
-Poor non-word repetition (biledodge, viversumouge)
• non-words: they learn to move their articulators, hear everything and put it together (the sounds are within the rules), isolates/tests working memory, not aided by top-down processing
What does SLI look like in regards to comprehension?
- Poor discrimination of units of short duration like bound morphemes (plural endings, etc). (hallmark)
- i.e.- knowing the tenses
- Ineffective sentence comprehension
- Reading errors are often not related to the text in terms of actual decoding or meaning has to do with overall discrimination.
- He said this was a bad bullet point**
- Series of events presented visually or verbally are difficult to reconstruct (like event retell or story retell)
- i.e. sequencing
Which disorder has a deeper perceptual problem?
LLD
What is the difference between reception and perseption?
reception- Can see and hear
perception- can’t process the information correctly & is the information being processed like other individuals.
How does SLI look in regards to pragmatics?
- May act younger than age (poop example….)
- Less flexible with language use and don’t understand communication breakdowns
- Trouble getting a turn to speak
- Inappropriate responses to topic
- Difficulty initiating a conversation
- Incomplete, confusing narratives
- Failure leads to decreased social interaction
What are the social effects of SLI?
Less likely to interact
- Less successful at play interactions-particularly if expressive language is significantly affected
- Fear of approaching others
- Reticence
- Often ignored by peers which leads to decreased interactional opportunities
- SLI + social skills problems=3X more likely to be victimized by peers (this is a big one!)
- By Junior High, these kids perceive themselves negatively scholastically and socially
Is it easy or difficult to determine the causal factors for SLI?
Difficult