~Class 23 - Vocabulary development and developmental language disorder

Question 1

In order to develop their vocabularies, children need to map ___ to their ___.

Answer 1

words // Referents

Question 2

What are Referents?

Answer 2

The thing that a word stands for

Question 3

What is Fast Mapping?

Answer 3

The process by which young children quickly learn the connection between a new word and its referent after hearing the word once or twice.

Question 4

What Late-Talkers?

Answer 4

Children who show slow onset and progression in their early language development

Question 5

What categorizes a child as a late-talker?

Answer 5

• At 24 months, fewer than 50 words in expressive vocabulary

- Do not produce any word combinations

Question 6

What % of children are late-talkers?

Answer 6

15%

Question 7

___ of late-talkers either fully catch up to their peers or remain within a normal range.

Answer 7

70-80%

Question 8

What are predictors of persisting difficulties in speech?

Answer 8

• A family history of language and/or reading difficulties

- Receptive language details

Question 9

What is Developmental language disorder (DLD)?

Answer 9

A condition in which children have persistent and severe language difficulties, with no obvious cause (e.g., hearing impairment; brain injury…). Formerly known as specific language impairment

Question 10

How many people have Developmental language disorder (DLD)?

Answer 10

7%

Question 11

Developmental language disorder (DLD) is often associated with ___, such as
behavioural, mental health, employment issues.

Answer 11

secondary difficulties

Question 12

DLD is a ___, not well ___ or ___.

Answer 12

“hidden disorder” // recognized // understood

Question 13

Children with DLD often experience secondary difficulties, such as higher rates of ___ (from infancy on), and higher rates of anxiety, depression, and other mental health issues

Answer 13

behavioural issues //

Question 14

Children with DLD tend to produce ___ sounds for their age, ___ words, confuse ___ words, and show ___.

Answer 14

immature speech // mispronounce // similar-sounding // phonological short-term memory weaknesses

Question 15

Children with DLD show phonological short-term memory weaknesses, especially words with ___ syllables or ___.

Answer 15

3+ // unusual sound combinations

Question 16

Children with DLD struggle with ___ tasks/

Answer 16

non-word repetition

Question 17

True or False: Children with DLD have less diverse vocabularies, both receptive and expressive

Answer 17

True

Question 18

True or False: Children with DLD learn new words at a slower rate

Answer 18

True

Question 19

True or False: Children with DLD forget newly-acquired words more readily

Answer 19

Trye

Question 20

True or False: Children with DLD show weaker semantic priming

Answer 20

True

Question 21

In English, kids with DLD produce fewer ___ (e.g., past tense –ed).

Answer 21

grammatical morphemes

Question 22

In English, kids with DLD over-rely on ___ cues vs. ___ cues like word order.

Answer 22

semantic // syntactic

Question 23

In English, kids with DLD have difficulty understanding ___.
-e.g., passives; long/multiple clauses

Answer 23

complex sentences

Question 24

In English, kids with DLD have ___ generally persistent and hard to treat

Answer 24

syntactic difficulties