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language is a uniquely ?

  • it is a ? that represents ?
  • a socially ?
  • provides the foundation upon which ? takes place
  • a disorder of language can have a profound ?
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human process that involves sharing of info

  • rule governed symbol system of signs, sounds, gestures that represent ideas and concepts
  • shared code
  • communication, problem solving, and synthesizing knowledge takes place
  • impact on a person’s ability to learn and function competently in the world
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language development involves both ?

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comprehension (receptive learning) and production (expressive language)

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bloom and lahey identified three skills that contribute to overall language ability

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form: phonology morphology and syntax
content: semantics
use: pragmatics

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the form of language :
phonology is the ?
the smallest units of language which consist of ?
phonotactics: rules for ?

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phonology

  • sounds of a language and rules for combining them
  • vowels and consonants
  • combining speech sounds to create a word
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morphology
is the ?
two types of morphemes ?

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smallest meaningful unit of language - the structure of words
-free morpheme (stand alone word) cat, build, structure
bound morpheme: attached to free morphemes cats , builder, sturctured

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syntax
the ?
example: nouns typically ?

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structure of sentences and the rules for organizing words in sentences
-occur before verbs “he is running”

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semantics: includes the ?
words can have
denontative meaning ?
connotative meaning?

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meanings of individual words and word combinations

  • literal/dictionary meaning
  • emotions and feelings that a word creates. figurative language such as idioms, proverbs
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figurative language

idiom: expression that does not have
proverb: a phrase that

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a direct meaning
“its been raining cats and dogs”
expresses a basic truth
“the early bird catches the worm”

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pragmatics

examples of these include

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how language is used in context

  • greetings
  • departures
  • enquiries
  • informing
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features of language development

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vocalizations versus verbalizations
-pre-linguistic versus linguistic
vegetative versus non-vegetative
-reflexive versus non-reflexive

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from 0 to 2 months:
from 2 to 4 months:
from 5 to 8 months: 
from 9 to 11 months:
from 12 to 18 months:
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cry 
cooing 
reduplicated babbling 
variegated babbling 
single words
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historic aspects of child language disorders
brown’s ?
-what children
-brown found an ? that correspond to the childs?
the orderly development is organized into ?
MLU is a common measure of ?
what is it exactly

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  • 14 grammatical morphemes
  • orderly development across the first five years of life/ MLU
  • 5 stages
  • expressive language development
  • average number of morphemes in a language sample of 100 utterances
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School- Age Language Development

  • growth in?
  • the most obvious growth occurs in areas of ?
  • emphasis shifts from ?
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  • all aspects of language continue to occur
  • semantics (vocab) and pragmatics (language use)
  • spoke to written language
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Language disorders affect up to ?
definition of a language disorder is the ?
this definition does not include ? so a language disorder can range from?

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  • 13% of all children
  • impairment or nontypical development of comprehension and/or use of a spoken, written, or other symbol system
  • severity
  • mild, moderate, severe
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Nonverbal: children who have developed ?
language deviance: child whose language is ?
language delay: child whose language is

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  • no verbal language
  • qualitatively different from normal younger children
  • quantitatively impaired
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acquired language disorder: a child whose language development is ?
language difference: the language features of a ? differ from the ?
-example

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-interrupted
-community / majority language
(english as a second language)

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Intellectual Impairment 
-a language disorder that is associated with ? 
-occurs in what percent of entire pop.
-language characteristics: 
-limited ?
-shorter?
-omit?
-language pragmatics is?
delay or deviance ? 
-language develops but at a ?
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  • -intellectual disability (sub-average intellectual function)
  • 3%
  • and less diverse vocab
  • utterances
  • grammatical morphemes
  • less flexible

delay
-much slower rate

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Autism Spectrum Disorder 
-a disorder of development that affects ?
-development typically affected ? 
-children with ASD are unable to ? 
-occurs in ? 
-language characteristics: 
-uneven 
-language use is ?
deviance or delay
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  • language, social skills and behavior
  • verbal and nonverbal communication, social interaction, creative imaginative play
  • interpret world and what is happening around them in same way as other children
  • 1 out of 200 (.5%)
  • language development
  • impaired (echolalia)
  • deviance
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Specific Language impairment (SLI) 
-a language disorder that occurs in the ? 
occurs in ? 
-language characteristics:
-limited 
-shorter 
-omit 
-50-75% also experienced 
-delay or deviance
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  • absence of a known cause (neurological, sensory, intellectual, emotional)
  • 8% of all 5 year olds (more boys than girls)
  • vocabularies
  • utterances
  • grammatical morphemes
  • difficulties learning to read
  • delay
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Language Learning Disability 
-subtle language disorder but severe enough to interfere with ?
-occurs during the approx. age range of ?
-language characteristics:
-semantic? (examples) 
-language use ?
-difficulties ?
deviance or delay
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  • use of language for learning and socializing
  • 8-15 years 5% of children 4:1 ratio
  • deficit (word finding problems ) circomlocutions, on specific vocabulary, semantically empty place holders, speech sound errors
  • deficit (pragmatics)
  • understanding language
  • deviance
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Experience Deprivation 
a language disorder resulting from a lack of ? during the ? 
-this period runs from ?
language characteristics:
-limited and unusual?
-fewer ?
-shorter?
-language pragmatics? 
deviance or delay
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  • environmental exposure / critical period of language development
  • prenatal to first few years of life
  • vocab
  • grammatical morphemes
  • utterances
  • deficit
  • deviance
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Behavior Theory (who and who)
-children learn language through 
-Nativist theory (who) 
-what device? predisposed to ? 
Interactionist theory (who and who?)
-what and what are important? children learn language because of ? 
Statistical Learning theory (who) 
-children learn language by ?
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  • Piaget and skinner
  • imitation and reinforcement

Chomsky
-language acq. device / biologically predisposed to learn language

Bates and Carnevale

  • Behaviorist and nativist theory important
  • desire to comm.

Saffran
-deciphering what they overhear

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A process of observation and measurement of a child’s language behaviors to determine

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whether a clinical problem exists
the nature and extent of the problem
the course to be taken to help the child

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Case history and review

  • SLP gathers information concerning
  • ?
  • communication as reported by ?
  • co-existence of
  • familial ?
  • family
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  • birth, social, behavioral development
  • parents
  • complicating conditions
  • history of comm.
  • priorities
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Standardized testing 
-also referred to as 
-two types of standardized tests ? 
norm references tests: allows for ? 
criterion references tests: the child's performance is evaluated with regard to
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  • formal assessment
  • comparison between child’s performance and a group of same aged children
  • a standard or body of material
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Non-standardized testing 
-also referred to as ? 
examples 
-more sensitive to the subtleties of  
-should be completed as compliment 
-no ?
-testing was not ?
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informal assessment

  • interviewing observation language sampling
  • natural spontaneous language
  • standardized testing
  • consistent or standard manner of testing
  • normed on a large pop. prior to use
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language sampling: recording of?
-testing via?
-key is to collect a representative sample of both ?
features analyzed from sample might include ?

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  • child’s language behaviors under relatively typical circumstances
  • object manipulation activities
  • expression and comprehension
  • production: MLU, grammatical morphemes, sentence types
  • comprehension: w-question comprehension
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hearing evaluation
hearing impairment can often be an ?
-audiometry: formal measurement of?

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  • underlying factor for poor language development

- measurement of hearing acuity

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written report 
generated after ?
the report should indicate: 
1. whether the child has a 
2. what is the nature of the ?
3. what is the ?
4. what should ?
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gathering as much info as possible and after analyzing all of the information

  • problem with language
  • problem (delay versus deviance)
  • extent of the problem (severity)
  • be done (recommendations)
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treatment of child language disorders 
-involves determining the?
treatment is directly based on ?
-some approaches work ?
-depends on factors such as ? 
treatment options include:
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best course of action to assist the child in gaining communicative competence
-assessment results
-child’s age, attention span, particular type of language disorder
-family based
individual or group based
-classroom based

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family based intervention
an SLP works ?
an SLP teaches the family how to ?
examples

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  • directly with family members closest to the child
  • interact with the child to promote specific communication and language skills
  • demonstrations, examples, handouts
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individual and group therapy
clients in hospitals and clinical settings receieve ?
-what determines individuals vs. group ?

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individual, group or a combination of both types of therapy

  • which is more beneficial to the client
  • the SLPs scheduling constraints
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classroom based intervention

  • slp can design an intervention plan and ?
  • slp and teacher can ?
  • slp can come into the classroom to ?
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  • consult with teacher about how she can successfully implement it in the classroom
  • collaborate and then co-teach
  • teach a small group of children
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intervention with adolescents 
requires a different approach than used with 
-slp must be ?
suggestions
take time to ?
ask the student 
stick to what the child
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  • younger children
  • flexible, willing to counsel, listen attentively, and offer guidance
  • talk with student
  • questions about his/her problem
  • wants to talk about
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cultural consideration in child language disorders
as the world becomes increasingly ? it is likely a SLP working in schools will be confronted with children who differ in ?
-assessment issues:
intervention issues

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  • global
  • culture, dialect, as well as primary language compared to their own
  • bilingualism
  • differntiating a language difference from a disorder
  • elective therapy
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bilingualism
proficiency in the second language can be assessed in ?
two types of bilingualism
for the slp there are challenges in regard to both the ?

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writing, reading, speaking and listening
-simultaneous
-consecutive
diagnosis and treatment of bilingual individuals