Chapter 8 Guided Practice in Language Therapy Flashcards
What are the types of language disorders?
Types of Language Disorders-
Receptive delays
Expressive delays
Language delays as well as another disorder
PRIORITIZING
Guided practice can be?
Indirect vs. direct
Indirect (usually completed in individual sessions)
What is indirect therapy?
therapy designed for very young children and other clients who operate essentially as nonverbal, even if the client uses a few one-word utterances occasionally
What is direct therapy?
Therapy for clients who routinely use verbal expression as the primary mode of communication, but with significant delays or disorders in language skills
Who are they?
young children
non-verbal or essentially non-verbal
What do you do?
Naturalistic
less structured
play-oriented
Direct vs indirect treatment is based on what assumption?
Based on assumption that variables observed in normally developing children are effective clinical treatment strategies for LI children)
Indirect communication interactions include what?
descriptions, self-talk, parallel-talk, expansions, extensions, recasts
explain descriptions, self-talk, parallel-talk, expansions, extensions, recasts
Descriptors-what is the child seeing Self talk- what clinician is doing Parallel talk- what the client is doing Expansions- adding to the utterance Extensions- utterance + 1 Recast- restating what the client said with better structure, additional information changes statement type etc.
What kind of clients and what do you do in direct therapy ?
Who are they…
Verbal clients
With a delay or disorder
What to do…
Manipulation of environment to provide opportunities to learn language (also called contrived environments)How do you do direct therapy?
How to do it… Thematic units Play/games Cards Worksheets Functional tasks
What is the goal of therapy?
Goals center on improving Semantic syntactic Morphological Phonological pragmatic language
Ultimate goal is to improve communication skills, not
increase skills in isolated aspects of language.
Explain the systems of language
Semantics – concept and word meaning (vocabulary). Syntax – rules of speech. Morphology – units of meaning. plurals (/s/ or /z/) possessives (/s/ or /z/) third person singular (/s/ or /z/) past tense (/t/ or /d/) present progressive (/ŋ/) Phonology – study of sound system. Pragmatics – appropriate use of language in context.
