Communication Assessment Flashcards
1
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Purpose of assessment
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Critical - communication deficits are main area of challenge
- Evaluate current social skill functioning/competence
- Identify skills to target
- Identify strengths
2
Q
Common goal of assessment
A
Make diagnostic recommendations
3
Q
Components of Communication assessment
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- Formal aspects of language
- atypical feature of language
- nonverbal communication
- language for social purposes
4
Q
Assessment with younger children (prelinguistic)
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- Depressed rate of communicative acts
- Delayed development of pointing
- nonconventional means of communication
- Reduced responsiveness to speech
- restricted range of communicative behaviors
- atypical vocalizations
- deficits in play
- limited ability to imitate
5
Q
Nonverbal older children assessment
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- analyze strengths and needs
- introduce AAC
- how they interact, control their environment
- completed needs assessment
6
Q
Content/form of language
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Expressive and Receptive; syntax, semantics
7
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Functional use of language
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For social purposes
