9/26 & 10/1 lecture Flashcards
Early Language Development Toddlers (12-24 mo) PPT
Social Development
Express needs, wants through vocalization and gesture
12 months
First words appear when?
12 months
What period do the toddlers go into when the production of their first true words are produced?
Locutionary period
What is a true word?
- it needs to occur with consistency in a given context in apparent response to an identifiable stimulus
- It should be produced consistently in the presence of the same person, object, or event
- It must bear some phonetic resemblance to a conventional adult word; it can be an approximation of a real adult word
What are the most common front consonants?
/p, b, d, t, m, n/
When should toddlers be saying 50 words?
18 months
When should toddlers be putting two words together?
18 months
True or False
Children can use 2-word combinations before they can say 50 words.
False
Research
What did Berko Gleason & Ratner 2009 say about how many words children should be learning in their 2nd and 3rd year?
- 2nd year of life, children start learning approx 1 word per week
- as they approach their 3rd birthday, they start learning 1 new word a day
What could the potential problem be if a child does not have a major lang growth spurt between 18-24 months of age?
- Probably has a lang delay
- Clinically significant (???)
Therapy implication:
What do we do if we are working with a ch that cannot express 50 words yet?
Train them to say at least 50 words first, then you can teach them to use 2 word combinations. Do not teach the 2 word combinations first
For Toddlers’, does receptive vocab or expressive vocab grow faster?
Receptive
How does vocab grow?
Exposure and experience
What are new words for a toddlers related to?
- familiar objects
- events
- relationships
What are the 5 levels of word knowledge?
Regegade earthlings rarely carry meat.
- Referential level
- Extended level
- Relational level
- Categorical level
- Metalinguistic level
What is Referential level?
Word refers to a particular object, event, or relationship (e.g., “dog” refers to the family dog Cocoa)
What is Extended level?
Word extends to other examples (e.g., “dog” refers to Cocoa and also the other dogs in the neighborhood)
What is Relational level?
Producing several words related by some meaningful context (e.g., “doggy bark” or “daddy eat”)
What is Categorical level?
Understanding categories- e.g.. dogs are animals, a strawberry is a fruit
This comes a lot later and lang impaired kids do not do well with this
Social Development
Repeat actions for approving audience
15 months
Cognitive Developments
Follows simple directions accompanied by gestures
15 months
What is Metalinguistic level?
Ch evaluate each word as a stimulus apart from its referent e.g., “strawberry” ha 3 syllables, starts with an /s/, and is a longer word than grape.
How prominent are nouns in a toddler’s lexicon? How how do they learn them?
50%
They learn from and use them because of toddler’s interaction with others
What are reflexive relations?
Early words that indicate the state of objects
Describe the relation of existence and provide an example
Child indicates awareness that an object exists.
e.g., This, That, or Here, while point to, touching, or holding out an object of interest
Describe the relation of nonexistence and provide an example
Child indicates that an object does not exist in a setting where it has come to be expected.
e.g., Says Allgone or Bear when placed in crib from which a favorite teddy bear is absent
Describe the relation of disappearance and provide an example
Child indicates that an object has been present is currently absent.
e.g., Says All gone or Ball after watching a tossed ball roll under the sofa.
Describe the relation of recurrence and provide an example
Child indicates either that an object that had disappeared has since reappeared or that another identical object has appeared
e.g., says More, Again, or ‘Nuther when a fallen cookie is retrieved or replaced with another cookie.
What are relational words?
Words that express relationships among objects
What are 3 types of relational words?
- Attribution
- Action
- Location
What is an Attribution relational word?
These express individual characteristics
e.g., tall, clean, dirty, hot, funny (adjectives)