Assessment for Developing Language Flashcards
What are some ways to describe the typical developing language stage?
ages 2-5
Brown’s stages II-V
MLU 2-5
what is known as the “most explosive” stage of language development?
telegraphic utterances to master of sentence structure
how does IDEA initiate family centered assessment?
-IDEA makes specific requirements for the inclusion of family in evaluation and intervention processes because:
parents are considered partners in assessment process and members of IEP team
the family’s perspective on the child’s strengths and weaknesses, and concerns and priorities must be considered
what is a screening
a quick procedure deciding whether a child is significantly different that is warrants a closer look
what are screening measures?
screenings are ALWAYS standardized
- general language screen
- early language milestone scale-2
- screening kit of language development
what is the purpose of standardized tests?
- identify areas in which the child is deficient compared to norms
- needed for insurance companies
why don’t standardized tests pinpoint specific deficiencies?
they are designed to sample a variety of behaviors within a domain so that they can get a valid comparison across children-this means there won’t be many examples of any particular structure
what is a major CON of standardized testing?
- they don’t tell us what mistakes the child makes in real conversation
- doesn’t look at pragmatics
- various influencing factors
how to rate intelligibility
-estimating the proportion of intelligible words
what should you do if the client is hard to understand?
perform an articulation test
if child scores below the norm range on an artic test OR normal speech is judged o be difficult to understand, what would you do?
examine the nature of the child’s speech sound difficulties
-intervention is warranted to improve speech intelligibility and to help develop awareness of sounds so that risk of reading problems is reduced
what is independent analysis?
- focuses on phonemic inventory
- which sounds can the child produce?
- write down, check off each consonant a child produces regardless of whether it is the correct one for that context by adult standards
what is relational analysis?
- focuses on errors and error patterns
- use artic tests about individual sounds in individual words
phonological/simplification processes
a way of describing sound changes that appear to be rule governed attempts which apply across a class of sounds or syllable structures TO MAKE PRONUNCIATION EASIER
what can a relational analysis tell us?
- what patterns of errors appear across sounds
- whether processes are FADING out at typical time/order
- do atypical processes appear?
- how consistent are the uses of each process
what is phonological processing?
refers to a child’s ability to perceive, store, retrieve, and manipulate sounds for language
-literacy term not slp term
phonological processing includes
- phonological awareness
- rapid automatic naming
- phonological memory
phonological awareness
ability to detect rhymes, number of syllables, and first/last sounds in words
ex) how many syllable is umbrella?
ex) hat, cat, fit (which doesn’t rhyme)
rapid automatic naming
saying the names of the week quickly (months, etc)
phonological memory
ability to repeat unfamiliar nonsense words
examples of informal assessment
- can you think of a word that starts with the same sound as DOG?
- can you clap for each part in the word hippopotamus
- non-word repetition tests
when assessing LANGUAGE we need to look at?
(standardized testing)
- receptive vocab
- expressive vocab
- receptive syntax and morphology (point to “the boys are here”
- expressive syntax and morphology (I have a dress, you have two _____)
what should you do if the child scores below the normal range on standardized language tests?
- do a criterion referenced assessment of word classes that are important in the child’s communicative environment
- SLPs do not teach vocab
what should you do if the child scores within the normal range on receptive vocab but others report concerns about word use?
- assess expressive vocab with a standardized naming test
- watch for signs of word finding trouble, overly general labels
circumlocutions
unclear references used to talk around a word because of word finding difficulty
