DS and Cognitively Impaired Populations - Comm. Intervention Flashcards
What is a strength of DS patients?
- Concrete vocabulary
- Visual Learning
What expressive language challenges do children with DS often struggle with?
- Parts of words
- function words
- sentence structure
- Connecting words
- Action Words
Children with DS have a _______ ____ _________ language development
slow, but normal
Children with DS will have more difficulty with ______ than _________
Syntax than vocabulary
For Intervention, the first focus should be on ________ _______ ________
Parent Centered Therapy
For Infants, one treatment focus may be on ________ __________
sensory stimulation/ sensory processing
An OT may assist in helping you with a DS child to work on ______ ______
Oral Motor Activities
Reading helps kids with DS primarily with:
Practicing sentence structures they can’t generate themselves
How old are we when literacy development start?
in utero
What are some examples of goals to teach language delayed children with DS?
- Vocabulary
- Direction following
To increase MLU, you can use a ______
pacing board
You can use scripts and social stories to tackle _________
pragmatics
Voice and Fluency issues is seen most in the _________ population
Down Syndrome
