Chapter 9: Intervention for Developing Language (Paul)

Question 1

re: intervention procedures for children with developing language

list four examples of clinician-directed methods

Answer 1

phonology, semantics, syntax, and morphology

Question 2

re: child-centered approach to intervention for the child with developing language

describe the three components of the indirect language approach

Answer 2

clinician provides contingent feedback; turn-taking is inherently balanced; clinician provides extension of the child’s topic

Question 3

re: child-centered approach to intervention for the child with developing language

describe the facilitated play approach

Answer 3

facilitated play is a highly-motivating activity; the child is exposed to a wide set of scripts (for example, while playing doctor, the child can act as the patient or the doctor)

Question 4

re: child-centered approach to intervention for the child with developing language

what are the goals of facilitated play

Answer 4

to enhance narrative ability; to facilitate turn-taking; to increase opportunities for increasing decontextualized language, to enhance expression of communicative intentions; to increase vocabulary; to develop emergent literacy

Question 5

re: hybrid approaches to intervention for the child with developing language

describe the four principals associated with hybrid approaches in phonology

Answer 5

to develop strong auditory models for target sounds; to develop kinesthetic patterns to match auditory images; to use the phonetic environment to facilitate correct sound production; to maintain the child’s active involvement in phonological acquisition

Question 6

re: hybrid approaches to intervention for the child with developing language

describe focused stimulation

Answer 6

an approach which focuses on specific forms and uses multiple models with a variety of forms of clinician feedback to stimulate language goals; it is used in the context of natural conversation between a client and an adult

Question 7

re: hybrid approaches to intervention for the child with developing language

list some examples of focused stimulation

Answer 7

false assertion (clinician makes false remark to prompt client to deny it); feigned misunderstandings (clinician pretends not to hear the client’s message); forced choices (clinician models correct use of the target); violating routines (clinician incorrectly performs for client to correct it); withholding objects (to encourage requests); violating object function (to encourage negation)

Question 8

re: hybrid approaches to intervention for the child with developing language

describe script therapy

Answer 8

an approach that reduces the cognitive load of language training by embedding it in the context of a familiar routine; for example:

EI: hello, bobby!
client: hi, sarah!

…at the beginning of every session

Question 9

re: hybrid approaches to intervention for the child with developing language

describe structured play

Answer 9

an approach that uses play organized by the clinician as a hybrid approach to phonological intervention; for example:

phonology targets disguised as play, as in sounding out letters in an activity disguised as sending a letter to Santa