Dr. R- Test 2 Flashcards
12 Months-Social Development
Express needs, wants thru vocalization and gesture to express wants and needs
What is a language sample?
A collection of a child’s utterances….experts recommend that an SLP gets 100-200 utterances (does not happen in real life, usually about 30)
What is the goal of the language sample??
To draw the child out and get them to talk to us …to evaluate the child’s morphology, syntax, phonology, semantics and pragmatic skills
According to Paul & Norbury, language samples are _______sensitive than formal tests in identifying preschoolers with language delays
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According to Haynes & Pindzola what should we minimize when obtaining LS
The use of yes and no questions
Working on not Interrupting is a goal of what??
Pragmatics
Working on plural “s” and “ing” is a goal of what?
Morphology
Working on a child’s use of “thing” and “stuff” is a goal of which area?
Semantics
Language Sampling helps us to do what 2 things?
plan treatment and monitor outcome
Why is the use of yes, no questions not as good as “open ended”?
Because we can solicit more of a response
What is a broad based question?
Same as open-ended…
According to Haynes & Pinzola…what should we contribute to??
According to Haynes & Pinzola, we should contribute to the conversation
Ideally…a lang. sample should be representative of what??
Ideally, a Language Sample should be representative of a child’s daily situation
When should a language sample be gathered? (over what period of time)
A LS should be gathered over several different sessions with several different conversational partners (family, friends)
Owens 2010 states that the LS would be less contrived if what?
According to Owens, the LS will be less contrived if the SLP follows children lead and adopts the childs topics for conversation
Free play is good for ______?
Free play is good for younger children
If free play is good for younger children, what is good for interview with older children?
For older children, interviews are better than free play, because they talk more
What are some interesting topics for children?
animals, friends, sports, what they like to do at recess,music, new baby
To analyze syntax, we need to evaluate the ch’s use of what 3 things?
To analyze syntactic skills we need to evaluate the ch’s use of 1. VERB PHRASES
- NOUN PHRASES
- PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES
What about sentence type is important when evaluating a ch’s language?
If they use a variety of sentences ( and not all all declarative or all interrogative)
What is a compound sentence?
A compound sentence has 2 or more independent phrases connected with a conjunction
To analyze morphological skills we should use what?
To analzye morphological skills we need to use pictures (-ing, plural nouns)
What can we do further to analyze a ch’s morphological skills?
To further analyze a ch’s Morphological skills …We can tell a story and ask the ch to re-tell the story
To assess Semantic skills what can the SLP do?
To assess Semantic skills we can note the ch’s use of words that they use…look esp. for “thing” and “stuff”
According to Haynes & Pindzola (2012)- in older students what should we look for when assessing their Lang.
According to Haynes & Pindzola - In older students we need to look for Semantically empty placeholders (um, you know, f*^%)
To assess for Pragmatic skills, we should look for…?
To assess pragmatic skills, look for ….turn-taking skills, conversational repair and presuppositional skills, difficulty defining words. We also look for eye-contact and other non-verbal behaviors and are they able to initiate and maintain topic
What is conversational repair?
Conversational repair is the ability to repeat something that originally is unintelligible
What are presuppostional skills?
When a ch assumes we know what they are talking about
Rice et al (April 2010) Journal of Speech, Lan., and Hearing Research what is a tool for evaluating ch’s lang.?
MLU (Mean Length of Utterance)
What type of ch is MLU good for?
Both typically developing and L I child
How do we calculate MLU (Mean length of utterance)?
MLU is the average number of morphemes in a ch’s utterance
Rules for counting Morphemes: What is a catenative?
A catenative is word like hafta, gonna, wanta COUNT AS 1
Rules for counting Morphemes: What are Reduplicated words?
Reduplicated words are words like baba, choo-choo COUNT AS 1
Rules for counting Morphemse: What are Diminutives?
A Diminutive is a word like horsie, dolly, Mommy COUNT AS 1