Developmental Social pragmatic Flashcards
Who wrote about this approach?
Gerber
What are Gerber’s assumptions of language aquisition in context?
Finding balance with the intervention priorities and natural interactions. Want to create opportunities for learning and for providing support to add context and meaning to the interaction. Natural contexts: routines and games. Intervention approaches: repetition, perceptual saliency (increase saliency of target), decrease rate, change routine
What are Gerber’s 10 developmental language acquisition principles in the context of her therapeutic approach?
Context of spontaneous, natural social interactions between caregiver & child •Embedded within cognitive affective & social development •Communicative intentionality precedes language •Prelinguistic development in cognitive, social, emotional, & communicative domains precede language •Roles: speaker-‐initiator & listener-‐responder •Same general stages of linguistic & communication development •Understanding & producing novel utterances •Imitation •Child plays active role in language development
What are the four questions proposed by Gerber for assessment purposes?
At what stage of speech, language, and communication development is this child?
What is the relationship between the child’s comprehension and production of language?
What strengths and weaknesses does the child present in different developmental domains?
What areas of processing may be challenged?
What does the developmental social pragmatic approach target?
–Intentionality –Nonlinguistic communication –Language function –Social interaction –Context –Discourse & conversational skills –Speaker-‐listener roles
Is the developmental/social pragmatic approach family centered
No?
